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What are the types of antibiotics?
Antibiotics is called a substance or chemical compound that is used to eliminate or slow the growth of other infectious organisms. The best-known antibiotic penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, although other types of antibiotics. In Demedicina talk about them.
In mechanism of action of antibiotics is selective toxicity, and weakened attack invading organisms such as bacteria and fungi without affecting the same way animals and humans. Thus are essential for infections. Antibiotics such as penicillin and other derivatives have been key in the history of humanity to combat infectious diseases such as:
* Syphilis,
* Scarlet fever
* Tetanus
* Tuberculosis
* Gonorrhea
In the beginning it was called antibiotics only to organic compounds produced by bacteria or fungi that are toxic to other day microorganismos.En antibiotics is also called synthetic or semisynthetic compounds.