the lincosamindes, clindamycin and lincomycin, which are highly active against anaerobic pathogens
Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections such as strep throat, urinary tract infections, and bacterial pneumonia. They are not effective against viral infections like the common cold or flu.
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An antibiotic might not work because the symptoms are attributed to a virus rather than a bacterium. Antibiotics do not work against viruses.
You have effective weapons in the form of antibiotics. But when you do not use them properly they will be useless.
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Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, not viruses, and HIV is a virus.
Yeast is not a bacterium, but you can kill some of them with some antibiotics. Antibiotics that are effective against yeast are usually called antifungals.
Viral diseases are caused by viruses which live in our cells as a host. So, killing them by antibiotics means killing our own cells. This is why antibiotics are not effective against viral diseases.
antibiotics such as aureomycin will have the best effects on typhus.
NO! poliomyelitis is caused by a virus (poliovirus). antibiotics are only effective against bacteria. *A doctor may prescribe antibiotics as supportive care but the antibiotics are not treating the polio directly.
Antibiotics effective against TB, specifically streptomycin, were discovered in 1943 by Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz. This discovery marked a significant advancement in the treatment of tuberculosis.
This would be called a broad-spectrum antibiotic.