ENG110Y5 Study Guide - Antimicrobial Resistance, Gonorrhea, Microbiology
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Antibiotics also known as anti -bacterial are substances or agents that either inhibits or destroys bacterial growth. The term antibiotics was first used in 1942 by selman waksman and his partners in journal articles to describe any substance that was antagonistic to the growth of other organisms in high dilution. [2] antibiotics was classified into bactericidal antibiotics that kill the bacteria directly and bacteriostatic antibiotics which prevent or inhibits them from growing . In the late 19th century, the better understanding of disease increased the curiosity of the researchers which led them to seek treatments to kill or inhibit the growth of microbes( such as bacteria). This proved difficult until the accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928 by alexander fleming. A culture plate of staphylococcus bacteria from an experiment that was left on his bench during a two-week leave and had now been contaminated with.
