Bacteria & Antibiotics
Below are our 10 articles in the bacteria & antibiotics' category:
Antibiotic resistance developed within a few years of the first antibiotic coming into widespread use in World War II. It is now a global problem....
Antibiotics are either bactericidal (they kill bacterial cells directly) or they are bacteriostatic (they slow bacterial growth by preventing...
Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, affecting the friendly bacteria that live in the gut and on the skin, as well as the pathogenic bacteria...
It is possible, yes, but at the current time, new antibiotics are being developed more slowly than at any time in their history. The pace of...
Antibiotics are divided into classes depending on their mode of action and what type of bacterial infections they treat. The major classes include...
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are strains of bacteria that can carry on growing and dividing normally in the presence of an antibiotic that should...
Antibiotics are drugs used to treat bacterial infections. They act specifically on bacteria, although some are also able to kill parasites....
C. difficile is Clostridium difficile, a member of the Clostridium family of bacteria. This family of dangerous human pathogens also includes...
MRSA is short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a strain of bacteria that commonly causes hospital infections. MRSA is resistant to...
Sulphonamide drugs, which could be used to treat bacterial infections in people, were available from 1935 but the first true antibiotic did not...
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