Customer Education Antibiotic Classification Antibiotic Classification and Modes of Action Part # 60-00415-0 © bioMérieux‚ Inc.‚ Customer Education March 2008 1 Customer Education Antibiotic Classification bioMérieux‚ the blue logo and VITEK are used‚ pending and/or registered trademarks belonging to bioMérieux SA or one of its subsidiaries. CLSI is a registered trademark of Clinical Laboratory and Standards Institute‚ Inc. Zyvox is a registered trademark of Pfizer Caribe
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This means that the original antibiotics that were once used to treat these common illnesses are becoming increasing ineffective. This resistance delays treatment as the original antibiotics are ineffective. This can lead to the disease worsening and even death. This means that common illnesses that were once easily treated by antibiotics are no longer so easy to treat. This results in increased care for these patients‚ need for stronger and more expensive antibiotics which can cause serious side
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withstand all forms of antibiotic medication. Superbugs are becoming increasingly significant in modern medicine as they are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. Antibiotics were discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming (Walsh and McManus‚ 2000). This resulted in a huge movement forward in medical history and even greatened human life expectancy. Since then antibiotics have been widely used and abused‚ people began to treat everything with this ‘miracle’ drug. If antibiotics are continually
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that face by McDonald is chemical issue‚ which is about the antibiotic that the supplier given to animal‚ and lastly become meat and supply to McDonald. The unnecessary use of antibiotic to animals will rise of drug resistant bacteria that will bring public in the treat of growing public health risk. McDonald was aware about the consumer health issue concern‚ so company announced that they was asking supplier to reduce the use of antibiotics. Interest There are organized and unorganized interests
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bought from any shop without a prescription. The Medicines Act 1968 controls the supply of drugs it covers. It does not outline any offence of simple possession as it is only an offence if the drug is also controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and amendments 1985‚ 2001 The 1971 Act outlines those activities which are illegal in relation to the drugs it controls (this is why certain drugs are called controlled). Such activities include: • Possession of
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bacteria | | | broth | | | heat | Question 4 | | 1 / 1 point | Pasteurization was first developed to kill ________ in wine. | | endospore-producing bacteria | | | all bacteria | | | disease-causing bacteria | | | antibiotic-producing bacteria | | | spoilage bacteria | Question 5 | | 1 / 1 point | Robert Koch’s studies on Bacillus anthracis established a sequence of experimental steps to prove that microbes ________. | | can be altered to produce products
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The debate of whether bacteriophages could replace antibiotics is one of the many health issues to be explored in this essay. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically target bacteria in your body to destroy it. Many scientists believe that bacteriophages will replace antibiotics in the fight against bacterial/diseases‚ although ideal‚ scientist do not know the long term effects of using this mechanism of defense. More research is needed and thus the push for bacteriophage usage may be reluctant
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synthesize materials and assist in biological processes‚ such as digestion. However‚ some bacteria can cause harmful diseases. When harmful bacteria infects the body‚ people take antibiotics in order to suppress bacteria. Different antibiotics have different ways they suppress bacteria‚ and the efficacy of antibiotics depends on the structure of the bacteria which they are targeting. The specific bacteria being studies in this experiment is E Coli and Enterococcus. E Coli is a bacteria which may
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reviewed for this research have stressed the importance of prophylactic antibiotic therapy (Stefansdottir‚ et al. 2009) and that the timing of this dose being given is becoming the utmost importance; along with the importance of appropriate antibiotic being given. There is not a large study found for the need of post operative antibiotic therapy to be given‚ the studies found show that there is a question of the effect of the antibiotics after 24-48 hours post procedure. Surgical Practice (2006) reported
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Soil Microbe Lab Antibiotics are chemicals produced by substances that kill or inhibit the growth of bacterial cells (Hurney et al 2013). These microbes‚ such as bacteria found in the soil‚ may seem like they would be harmful to the human body because they attack cells‚ however they are very efficient at only attacking the bacterial cells. Actinomycetes are one of the more common groups of these soil microbes known to produce antibiotics. Antibiotics work because they target specific aspects
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