why is peptidoglycan synthesis inportant in antibiotic activity? why do antibiotics not interfere with cell wall synthesis in the host cells?

Q: Which of the following is characteristic of the lytic cycle? a) The virus-host relationship usually…

A: Introduction: A bacteriophage is a virus that infects bacteria and archaea and replicates within…

Q: Why are protease inhibitors an effective treatment forhuman AIDS?

A: HIV is a member of retrovirus family that is closely related to SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency virus)…

Q: 65. The effectiveness of metronidazole, useful in treating active amebic infection, is dependent on…

A: The effectiveness of metronidazole, which is commonly used in the treatment of active amebic…

Q: What are the steps in a lysogenic infection?

A: The lysogenic cycle is the process through which a virus replicated its DNA by using a host cell.…

Q: Considering that Staphylococcus epidermidis does not typically cause disease in a healthy person,…

A: Plasmids are small, self-replicating, extrachromosomal, circular double stranded DNA molecules…

Q: is able to bind to and cut off the 5' cap of the coronavirus RNA genome once it enters the host…

A: Coronavirus is RNA virus. In order to establish an infection every virus should find the susceptible…

Q: How could colony-stimulating factors be used as a therapy?

A: colony-stimulating factors are used as a  many therapies :

Q: What is a cytocidal infection? What is a cytopathic effect?

A: SOME BASIC INFORMATION ABOUT INFECTIOUS AGENTS It is pathogens or the microorganisms which are…

Q: What are some mechanisms by which pathogenic bacteria cause diseases? Why is this knowledge…

A: Bacteria are a group of prokaryotic microscopic single celled organisms. They live in diverse…

Q: How long does it take for SSPE to appear after the initial infection

A: SSPE/ Dawson's disease: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a chronic progressive neurological…

Q: Eubacterial ribosomes can be inactivated by all of the following antibiotics except:…

A: Microorganisms are small organism that cannot be seen by naked eyes. They include bacteria, fungi,…

Q: use to stop the growth of mycoplasma.

A: Mycoplasms is a bacterial genus. It can be a saprophyte or parasite. They are the smallest bacteria.…

Q: Why is handwashing an important means to control the spread of norovirus?

A: Introduction  Viral infections are very harmful for mankind. In the post century where we faced the…

Q: What is the importance of lysogenic conversion in bacterial pathogenesis?

A: During the lysogenic cycle, the DNA of a bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) is integrated…

Q: What type of adaptation are the Shigella bacteria exhibiting?

A: Shigella are gram-negative, nonmotile, pathogenic bacteria that resembles E.coli and it has…

Q: 1) What is NDM-1? How can NDM-1 spread to different types of bacteria? 2) Why are Gram negative…

A: Antibiotic resistance is provided by beta-lactamase, which breaks the structure of antibiotics. A…

Q: Why we say Beta-lactam antibiotics to penicillin and also explain mode of action of theses…

A: Antibiotics is the word antibiosis which means against life.  They are chemical compounds obtained…

Q: How is the microbe that makes penicillin different from the one that makes streptomycin?

A: An antibiotic is a kind of antimicrobial substance dynamic against microbes. It is the main kind of…

Q: How does the E. coli strain 026:H11 damage its victims?

A: The enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) serotype O26 is the second most common enterohaemorrhagic E.…

Q: Why are gram-positive bacteria typically more resistant than gram-negative bacteria to…

A: Bacteria are found everywhere. They can survive almost every where including bottom of oceans, our…

Q: Why does one microbe cause disease, whereas another,closely related species is completely harmless?

A: There are a variety of pathogenic and non-pathogenic species of bacteria that are related to each…

Q: is bacterial infection same as bacteria toxin?

A: Microbes cause different diseases in different hosts. The microbes often evade the immune system and…

Q: How can the use of chemical agents contribute to bacterial antibiotic resistance?

A: Bacteria are prokaryotic organisms that are unicellular and devoid of the cellular organelle like…

Q: Why are certain gram-negative bacteria more resistant than gram-positive bacteria to antimicrobials…

A: Gram-negative bacteria are characterized by the presence of thin peptidoglycan cell wall. The…

Q: What part of the host cell is degraded after phage nucleic acid has entered a host cell?

A: Viruses are the obligate intracellular parasite. They always hijack the host cell machinery and they…

Q: Antibiotics are termed broad spectrum if they inhibit both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria.…

A: Bacteria are microorganism that most commonly occur in the soil, air, water and in adverse…

Q: Most medically useful antibiotics interfere with either peptidoglycan synthesis or ribosome…

A: Antibiotics are the antimicrobial drugs that prevent the growth of bacteria. These antibiotics have…

Q: Resistance to antimicrobial agents is more commonly seen in hospital-acquired infections with…

A: Bacteria acquire drug resistance and spread within their population. Drug resistance in bacteria…

Q: Once these pathogens enter the host the difference in environmental conditions signals for them to…

A: Disease causing organisms are known as pathogens. Different types of pathogens have different modes…

Q: Why are gram-negative bacteria more resistant than gram-positive bacteria to the cytoplasmic target…

A: Antibiotics are a type of microbial substances which are active against bacterial cells and it is…

Q: a) Lytic cycle b) Latent cycle c) Oncogenic cycle

A: Viral reproduction: Viral replication or reproduction does not occur by their own. It depends on…

Q: What are novel antibiotics? And their difference to normal antibiotics

A: What are novel antibiotics?

Q: What are some mechanisms by which pathogenic bacteria cause diseases? Why is this knowledge…

A: bacteria use different strategies to enter human body and it cause pathogenicity by septic shock…

Q: Different strains of Streptococcus pyogenes have different virulence factors, giving these microbes…

A: Streptococcus pyogenes is the leading cause of uncomplicated bacterial pharyngitis and tonsillitis…