(精编)Antibiotics (anti-microbials)教学课件.pptVIP

Antibiotics (anti-microbials) Dr Gareth Noble (and Dr Sue Jordan) Introduction Kock Pasteur over a century Discovered ‘cause and effect’ Once found, needed an agent to be created to handle them Antibiotics = a natural substance produced by a micro-organism to kill another Antiinfectives/Anti-microbrial = any agent (natural or synthetic) that kills pathogens (microbes) Key: it needs to kill the microbial cell and not be toxic to normal healthy human cells Overview Antibiotics are a large and diverse group of drugs which combat infections by suppressing the growth and reproduction of bacteri