Antibiotics

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Antibiotics are the medications used to combat bacterial or even viral infection i.e., erythromycin, gentamycin,  penicillin etc. , Antibiotics are obtained from bacterial strains and are effective against variety of microbial agents. The first antibiotic discovered was penicillium isolated from a fungi called "Penicillium Notatum" by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928.




Antibiotics are proved exceptionally effective regarding the treatment of several infections including influenza virus, common cold etc. The term antibiotic indicates that they are used against living organisms. They are isolated from living organisms and used to prevent the growth of other living organisms. Antibiotics were discovered coincidentally in 1877, when Louis Pasteur observed growth inhibition by a bacterium that stopped the growth of another bacterium called Bacillus Anthracis. 

  




Antimicrobial Resistance: 

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most common health concern affecting the whole world. The AMR occurs as a results of acclimatization due to the overuse of certain antibiotics as the microbe becomes resistant to the antibiotic. The microbe gets mutated and the particular mutation proves advantageous for the microbe to survive. The antibiotic fails to fight with infection and microbes continues multiplying. Biologists are producing novel antibiotics with an aim to defeat the problem of AMR. 





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