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

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

Which of the following types of antimicrobial drugs make microbes more susceptible to osmotic pressure? 1) drugs that inhibit nucleic acid synthesis O 2) drugs that inhibit metabolic pathways 3) drugs that inhibit cell wall synthesis 4) drugs that block a pathogen's recognition of its host 5) drugs that inhibit protein synthesis

What makes bacterial diseases such as Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens & Clostridium tetani very effective to cause infection in a human host?

Many antibiotics used in modern medicine are compounds made by fungi that inhibit bacterial protein synthesis. Describe the specific effect of the following antimicrobial drugs: (i) Chloramphenicol (ii) Rifamycin

A pathogenic bacteria ferments for survival in your patient producing a swollen, dark discolored leg due to muscles degradation and gas-filled distension on the skin. Treatment includes pressurized hyperbaric oxygen. Which of the following apply? None of the statements apply Streptococcus pneumoniae causing community aquired pneumonia. Klebsiella pneumoniae causing cellular degradation in pulmonary tissues Clostridium perfringens causing gas gangrene resulting in myonecrosis by synthesis of acids and gases Staphylococcus aureus producing lipases and proteases

Is the ability to produce antibiotics limited only to bacterial species?Explain.

Define the following terms: Bactericidal Bacteriostatic Antisepsis

The question below is one question I just separated the question marks 1) How are antibiotics, as a class of drugs, unique? 2)How does this facilitate resistance? 3)How are antibiotics misused?

What is the mode of action of bacitracin?  How does this influence the types of bacteria it can be used against effectively? What is the mode of action of tetracycline?  How does this influence the types of bacteria it can be used against effectively?