Upload
desirae-hinckley
View
221
Download
3
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
ANTIBIOTICS
COMENIUS EUROPEAN PROJECT
IPSIA “Emilio Cavazza” - POMEZIA
What are antibiotics??
• Antibiotics kill and inibith pathogenes’s growth.
• There are synthetic and semisyntetic antibiotic.They’re produced in
industries and into laboratories.
Natural antibiotics
• Natural Antibiotics derived from specific plant. There are antiviral
and antifungals antibiotics.
Synthetic antibiotics
• Synthetic antibiotics are produced in the laboratories and they have revolutionized modern medicine
• The most significant for the medicine was the pennicillin
Pennicillin• Pennicillin is a derivate of mold
Penicillium notatum and it was discovered by Fleming in
1928
• Pennicillin was used for the first time in humans
in 1949
Mechanism of action• Antibiotics act by different ways
• They are divided according to the mechanism of action against the
pathogen
Antibiotic resistance
• Continued use of an antibiotic can cause the results useless because some bacteria develop strains resistant bactericidal or bacteriostatic antibiotic.
• This weakens our immune system making little efficient.
Consequences
• The antibiotic can give side effect. The
dependence of medicines or
abuse of these it can take to
death.