How do broad-spectrum antibiotics work?

Answer 1

The Broad Spectrum Antibiotics -are any of a variety of substances, usually obtained from microorganisms, that inhibit the growth of or destroy certain other microorganisms.

The great number of diverse antibiotics currently available can be classified in different ways, e.g., by their chemical structure, their microbial origin, or their mode of action.

They are also frequently designated by their effective range. Tetracycline is the most widely used broad-spectrum antibiotics, are effective against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as against rickettsia (any of a group of parasitic bacteria that live in the tissues of ticks, mites, and other arthropods, and cause disease when transmitted to man and other animals) and psittacosis-causing organisms. Ciprofloxacin (Cipro) is another broad spectrum antibiotic, effective in the treatment of mild infections of the urinary tract and sinuses. The medium-spectrum antibiotics bacitracin, the Erythromycin, penicillin, and the Cephalosporins (any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium) are effective primarily against Gram-positive bacteria, although the streptomycin group is effective against some Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Polymixin are narrow-spectrum antibiotics effective against only a few species of bacteria.

Answer 2

You have tetracycline and chloramphenicol as broad spectrum antibiotics. They adversely affect protein synthesis of the microorganisms.

Answer 3

As a effect you can treat wide range of diseases. As a adverse effect you can get pseudo-membranous enterecolitis.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The term \"broad spectrum antibiotics\" means that this type of medication will work against many different types of bacteria.