Why don’t antibiotics kill viral infections, and how can overuse of an antibiotic lead to “antibiotic resistance”?Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because viruses have different structures and replicate in a different way than bacteria. Antibiotics work by targeting the growth machinery in bacteria ...
Why is it ineffective to treat viral disease with antibiotics? Why do many diseases bacteria are prokaryotes? Why do you think so many diseases are caused by prokaryotic organisms? Why is Ebola so deadly? Why is AIDS a pandemic? Why is viral gastroenteritis of concern in young children?
Why won't antibiotics work on leishmaniasis? What causes bacterial infection in the testicles? What causes multiple bacterial infections? What causes gardnerella bacterial infections? Does sodium bicarbonate kill fungus? What is the treatment for antibiotic resistant bacteria?
Breastfeeding, when a blocked milk duct can get infected and cause a painful condition called mastitis— which needs prompt treatment, usually with antibiotics Menopause Sore nipples can be a sign that your period is coming. This, along with other types of breast pain should ease once you have...
an intrinsic component of antibiotics, making them quite unique among drugs. While parallels exist in the anti-cancer field, the diversity of resistance mechanisms that bacteria deploy in response to antibiotics is unequaled and reflective of their long natural history. Given this experience, fair qu...
Bacteria have relied on random mutations to cope with harsh, constantly changing environments for millions of years. Their incessant, random mutations will lead them to inevitably develop variants that are resistant to the antibiotics of the future. Drug resistance is a reality of life we will have...
Antibiotics for bacterial infections Changes to medication if caused by a drug reaction Treatment for inflammatory conditions Treatment foranxietyand stress If you've received an official leukocytosis diagnosis, your doctor may also do a procedure called leukapheresis, which decreases your WBC by using ...
Based on these previous observations, culturomics is a high throughput method which diversifies culture conditions by modifying parameters such as temperature, atmosphere, incubation time, or by adding inhibitory factors such as antibiotics, and promoters such as blood and rumen fluid for the cultivation...
How does penicillin work to kill bacteria? How do antibiotics affect bacterial cell walls? Why isn't one antimicrobial agent equally effective against different kinds of bacteria? With natural selection, how can the use of antibiotics result in resistant bacteria? What are the few strategies that ...
How do bacteria cause disease? Why might a person who is on Prednisone for the treatment of arthritis develop a stomach ulcer? Why doesn't the stomach normally digest itself? Why doesn't gastric juice normally digest the duodenum? Why do antibiotics affect bacteria but not damage the body's...