identify two antibiotics that work differently and describe how they work Soluti

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How do antibiotics work? Popular Questions Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Health > Medication and Drugs > How do antibiotics work? How Do Antibiotics WorkLearn Causes, Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention on Any Health Issue.www.everydayhealth.com/ Ads Answer: Answer You accumulate white blood cells which come together to fight your infection. Antibiotics help your white blood cells multiply more rapidly, and in turn, kill your infection. The above answer is complete rubbish. Differnt types of antibiotic work in different ways. Some are bactereotoxic so kill the bugs, whilst some are bactereostatic so only stop the bugs multipying, allowing your own immune system to kill them. One class of antibiotics are the beta lactam penicillins which includes what most people recognise as penicillin. These antibiotics are bactereostatic and prevent the cell wall of the bacteria forming properly. This doesn't kill the bacteria but does stop new ones forming. This is of course assuming the bacteria haven't evolved to produce substances which allows them to disable the antibiotic making it useless. Other antibiotics target different parts of the bacteria. As each antibiotic has a specific target in the cell, this helps see why antibiotics do not work on viruses, which are not made of cells. Try this on for size Although there are a number of antibiotic they all work in one of two ways: A bactericidal antibiotic kills the bacteria. Penicillin is a bactericidal. A bactericidal usually interferes with the formation of the bacterium's cell wall or its cell contents. A bacteriostatic stops bacteria from multiplying.thats not any better than the last one shooooot. darn hooties. And that is the truth!!!! -DLA

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