{"id":2194,"date":"2020-07-23T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:59:00","slug":"q-11-what-are-antibiotics-how-do-they-work-or-discuss-their-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-11-what-are-antibiotics-how-do-they-work-or-discuss-their-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.11 What are antibiotics? How do they work? OR Discuss their uses."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q.11 What are antibiotics? How do they work? OR Discuss their uses.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Antibiotics <\/strong><br \/>\nAn antibiotic is a drug that kills or retards the growth of bacteria. They are the chemicals produced by or derived by microorganisms (bacteria and fungi).<br \/>\n<strong>Bactericidal Antibiotics <\/strong><br \/>\nAntibiotics are used to treat many different bacterial infections. Some antibiotics are &#8220;bactericidal\u201d, meaning that they kill bacteria.<br \/>\n<strong>Bacteriostatic Antibiotics<\/strong><br \/>\nAntibiotics are those which work by stopping bacterial growth.<br \/>\n<strong>Broad-spectrum Antibiotics <\/strong><br \/>\nSome antibiotics can be used to treat a wide range of infections and are known as broad-spectrum antibiotics. Narrow-spectrum Antibiotics<br \/>\nOthers are only effective against a few type of bacteria and are called narrow spectrum antibiotics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/unit-18-pharmacology-long-questions\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1462 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/back_button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q.11 What are antibiotics? How do they work? OR Discuss their uses. Answer: Antibiotics An antibiotic is a drug that kills or retards the growth of bacteria. They are the chemicals produced by or derived by microorganisms (bacteria and fungi). Bactericidal Antibiotics Antibiotics are used to treat many different bacterial infections. Some antibiotics are &#8220;bactericidal\u201d,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/q-11-what-are-antibiotics-how-do-they-work-or-discuss-their-uses\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q.11 What are antibiotics? How do they work? OR Discuss their uses.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murreeroad.org\/Biology10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}