What are Antibiotics, how do they work and why do we see resistance in antibiotic.. this video answers all these questions.
Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928 when he found Pencillium and Penicillin was found.
There are two types of Antibiotic
Bactereostatic and Bactericidal
Bother antibiotics have different mode of action and play major role in immunity.
Antibiotics are only available against Bacteria but not virus.
Antibiotics stop DNA replication or stop its metabolism or it also stops its enzyme or substrate.
Penicillin kills the bacteria by rupturing its bacterial cell wall, thereby killing bacteria but not harming our body cells.
usage of antibiotics also effect normal flora of our body which becomes a challenge are a lot of our functions are dependent upon them. Antibiotics kill our helpful bacteria as well thereby disturbing our normal functions of body and causing side effects.
Evolution of bacteria and their mutation caused a war between scientist and bacteria as they started mutating against antibiotics and we had to made newer and newer generation of antibiotics while bacteria kept challenging us.
