Stupid give somebody the third degree. Do antibiotics wipe out fungus as powerfully as germs?
My little sister had an exam question asking what two microbe infections were treated by antibiotics. The answer individual bacteria and fungus. I was of the belief that antibiotics only treated microbes.
Is there some definition mix up between antibacterial/antibiotic I'm having?
Fungus would be the last entity I would imagine antibiotics to kill, their discovery coming about by penicillin person produced by the penicillium fungus?
Answers:
No, antibiotics only massacre bacteria.
Most antibiotics target structures or processes present only in microbes. Penicillin and its relatives interfere with the production of the cell wall. These drugs would be utterly useless against a fungus due to the fact that fungi have cell walls chemically distinct from germs.
Drugs that target fungi are called antifungals. Drugs that target bacteria are called antibiotics.
There are drugs that specifically kill bacteria and there are other drugs that specifically shoot fungi. They are both "antibiotics", though the first might be called "antibacterials" and the second might be "antifungals".
I am sure you're right but it may be that some antibiotic preparations also have anti-fungal contents,
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:22189
No, antibiotics do not destroy fungi. By definition, antibiotics kill bacteria only. If you are chitchat about something that kills bacteria and fungi, later it is called an antimicrobial, not an antibiotic. Source(s): Ran clinical drug trials for antifungal medication. Also, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics
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Is there some definition mix up between antibacterial/antibiotic I'm having?
Fungus would be the last entity I would imagine antibiotics to kill, their discovery coming about by penicillin person produced by the penicillium fungus?
Answers:
No, antibiotics only massacre bacteria.
Most antibiotics target structures or processes present only in microbes. Penicillin and its relatives interfere with the production of the cell wall. These drugs would be utterly useless against a fungus due to the fact that fungi have cell walls chemically distinct from germs.
Drugs that target fungi are called antifungals. Drugs that target bacteria are called antibiotics.
There are drugs that specifically kill bacteria and there are other drugs that specifically shoot fungi. They are both "antibiotics", though the first might be called "antibacterials" and the second might be "antifungals".
I am sure you're right but it may be that some antibiotic preparations also have anti-fungal contents,
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:22189
No, antibiotics do not destroy fungi. By definition, antibiotics kill bacteria only. If you are chitchat about something that kills bacteria and fungi, later it is called an antimicrobial, not an antibiotic. Source(s): Ran clinical drug trials for antifungal medication. Also, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics
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