What's the difference between Bacteria and Viruses? - Drugs.com
2024年4月3日 · Bacteria are enclosed by a rigid cell wall, which can vary widely in its composition, helping to distinguish between different species of bacteria. When exposed to a dye called a gram stain, gram positive bacteria trap the dye due to the structure of their walls, while gram negative bacteria release the dye readily, because their cell wall is thin.
Antibiotic Resistance: The Top 10 List - Drugs.com
Infections with drug-resistant bacteria may lead to longer and more costly hospital care, and increase the risk of dying from the infection. Dangerous, resistant bacteria known as "superbugs" are being reported. Each year over 2.8 million people get an antibiotic-resistance infection, and close to 35,000 people die.
Antibiotics 101: Common Names, Types & Their Uses - Drugs.com
2024年10月8日 · Learn more: View all aminoglycoside drugs 10. Carbapenems. These injectable beta-lactam antibiotics have a wide spectrum of bacteria-killing power and may be used for moderate to life-threatening bacterial infections like stomach infections, pneumonias, kidney infections, multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired infections and many other types of serious bacterial illnesses.
How do antibiotics work to kill bacteria? - Drugs.com
2024年4月1日 · Antibiotics work by interfering with the bacterial cell wall to prevent growth and replication of the bacteria. Human cells do not have cell walls, but many types of bacteria do, and so antibiotics can target bacteria without harming human cells.
List of 104 Bacterial Infection Medications Compared - Drugs.com
Bacteria are group of micro-organisms that are a single cell approximately 1 micron in transverse diameter. Some bacteria cause disease in man, requiring treatment with an antibiotic. Drugs used to treat Bacterial Infection
Why Don’t Antibiotics Kill Viruses? - Drugs.com
Viruses are structurally different from bacteria. Viruses live and replicate inside of a human cell and they cannot live outside of this environment. Viruses insert their genetic material into a human cell’s DNA in order to reproduce. Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because bacteria and viruses have different mechanisms and machinery to ...
Amoxicillin: 7 things you should know - Drugs.com
2024年5月16日 · aerobic gram-positive bacteria: Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus species (beta-lactamase negative strains only), certain strains of Streptococcus species including S. pneumoniae; aerobic gram-negative bacteria (beta-lactamase negative strains only): Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Proteus mirabilis.
List of Common Penicillins + Uses & Side Effects - Drugs.com
2023年4月11日 · Most bacteria can be classified as gram-positive or gram-negative based on differences in their cell wall structure, which can be distinguished under a microscope using a type of dye. One of the most important differences between these two types of bacteria is that gram-positive bacteria are more susceptible to antibiotics while gram-negative ...
Amoxicillin: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects, Warnings - Drugs.com
2024年8月16日 · There are several antibiotics that kill the common mouth bacteria that cause tooth infections. The best (first-line) antibiotics for tooth infection include: Amoxicillin, Penicillin, Cephalexin, Clindamycin, Azithromycin. Amoxicillin is often the first choice because it is widely effective and has the fewest gastrointestinal side effects.
Bactrim & Bactrim DS: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects - Drugs.com
2024年5月22日 · Bactrim and Bactrim DS contain a combination of two antibiotics, sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim, that treat different types of infection caused by bacteria. Bactrim DS (double strength) tablets are twice as strong as Bactrim tablets.