HLTH 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Methicillin, Azithromycin, Pharmaceutical Industry
23 Mar 2018
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You don"t need antibiotics for a cold or antibacterial soap. Antibiotic - low molecular substance produced by a microorganism that at a low concentration inhibits or kills other microorganisms (bacteria) - penicillin. Antimicrobial - any substance of natural, semisynthetic or synthetic origin that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms but causes little or no damage to the host (sulfonamids) All antibiotics are antimicrobials but not all antimicrobials are antibiotics. Fleming discovered in 1928- also discovered lysozyme, which cleaves the cell wall of bacteria. Noticed no bacterial growth around penicillin mold in a petri dish. Realized they have to mass produce penicillin cause ppl would die without repetitive injections. Had it not been for penicillin, syphilis in 1945 europe could have been the disaster of. Antimicrobial resistance - no action today, no cure tomorrow. The greatest challenge to human health in the 21st century. A problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine.
