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Antibiotics - Term Papers

Antibiotics

An antibiotic, is defined to be a drug produced by certain microbes.
Most doctors use to help fight the germs in a patient.
are obtained from plants, fungi, air, water, soil, just about anything on earth.
kill and attack the germ or virus in the body, but do not hurt the
human cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types of
diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several kinds of infections.
People have been using antibiotics for more than 2,500 years. They used
molds to help cure some skin infections and rashes. It was in the late 1800's
that the real study of medicine began. Louis Pasteur discovered that bacterium
was the cause of disease, and proved ...

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developing new drugs to treat diseases and bacteria.
Over the years, numerous thousands of antibiotic material have been
found in nature as well as produced chemically but, there are few that are safe
and useful. However the ones that are safe and effective have saved many lives
and have helped extend life expectancy.
Right now, there is more than 70 different kinds of antibiotics in use.
Most antibiotics are used to treat infections, some for fungi and protozoa, but
antibiotics are not usually effective against viruses. So they have developed
other methods such as vaccines against viruses.
Antibiotics work by one of three ways, they can one, prevent the cell
wall from growing; two, obstruct the cell membrane; or three disrupt the
chemical processes. When the antibiotic prevents the cell wall from forming, the
antitoxin surrounds the bacteria's membrane, and then it forms a rigid wall that
stops the cell wall from splitting open, which would produce another cell. The
humans' ...

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Added: 11/1/2008 02:32:20 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Free Paper
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