A class of drugs used to treat bacterial infections. They function by inhibiting the growth of, or by killing bacteria.
Questions tagged [antibiotics]
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why has teixobactin not reached clinical use in humans yet?
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A new antibiotic, teixobactin, was discovered in 2015 in a screen of uncultured bacteria (using ichip, an isolation chip composed of several hundred miniature diffusion chambers, each inoculated with a single environmental cell, allowing…
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Do antibiotic-resistant bacteria present greater danger than related strains prior to development of antibiotics?
Are antibiotic-resistant bacteria more dangerous besides their resistance?
I am aware of the way things were before the first antibiotics: people died from infections often and diseases like syphilis were protracted death sentences.
My question is…
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Should mixtures of antibiotics become standard practice to curb antibiotic resistance?
Intuitively the standard practice of using only 1 antibiotic for a standard (non-resistant) infection poses the highest risk of developing resistance (because the bacterial population only has to beat the antibiotic it faces).
What if every…
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Is it necessary to take antibiotics after medical/dental treatment?
Usually I don't take antibiotics when I take medicines according to a prescription.
Is it necessary to take antibiotics when I am bleeding in my body, for example, in my gum or teeth?
I thought I do not need to take it because I am healthy and have…
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How to avoid general weakness when taking antibiotics
After taking antibiotics for a couple of days, I feel a general sense of weakness in my body. This includes physical weakness (tiredness, shortness of breath) and mental weakness (difficulty of performing normal cognitive tasks, impossibility of…
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Why is Tobramycin prescribed for ear infections?
Tobramycin is ototoxic and in some individuals with genetic predisposition Tobramycin can apparently cause rapid permanent balance and hearing loss.
Yet, at least where I live, Tobramycin is prescribed for ear infections both as drops and as…
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