Essays on Antibiotics

Antibiotics: More Harm Than Good The invention of antibiotics was done to treat immensely strong diseases and not to be overdiagnosed. This overuse of antibiotics has affected humans overall tolerance to them, fending them useless in occasions. Overusing antibiotics will cause them to adapt and…

Antibiotics have been used in the past 50 years as a sort of “miracle drug.” Antibiotics have prevented many diseases and infections, but there are flaws being found in what used to be viewed as an amazing thing. Antibiotics are given to many children for…

Antibiotics Antibiotics is a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms. In the US we use about 35 million pounds of antibiotics just in one year. The amount of antibiotics given to animals has increased to about…

Generally, there are several accepted properties that contributes to the total antibacterial properties of honey. These factors include acidity/ low pH, low water activity, low water content, high total or reducing sugar content, phytochemicals and production of hydrogen peroxide (Irish, Blair and Carter, 2011). As…

Abstract Todays, widespread use of antibiotics in modern medicine has been considered as a hot environmental topic. Tetracycline as over the counter therapeutic drugs, has aroused much public health attention. The most important following threat is easily spread of resistant bacteria through different routes. It…

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Adverse Reaction of Antibiotics is “the unwanted or undesireable result of the antibiotic which occur at normally or prescribed dose used by the man”. Aims and Objectives: The investigation of the association between the use of antibiotics during life span and the subsequent…

Toxins are antigens secreted by microbes to act on the host tissue and can stimulate specific antibodies called antitoxins. Antimicrobial monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) synthesized by the host against microbial cell surface targets and soluble exotoxins. Its mode of action depends on the nature of the…

INTRODUCTION The greatest threat of the 21st century is the dawn of the anti-biotic resistance era. In the last decade along with increased nosocomial infections, there is the increased cases of MDR and XDR in pathogens in community and hospitals. A greater number of MDR…

Introduction The discovery and introduction of antibiotics in the 1940’s revolutionized the medical field, drugs such as penicillin and streptomycin lead the way into helping save millions of lives, including curing tuberculosis (Ling et al.,2015). As of today, antibiotics fall into one of two categories,…