Antibiotics & Resistance
Antibiotics are medicines that help to cure bacterial disease by killing infectious bacteria inside the body.
Most students confuse antibiotics and painkillers.
What is Antibiotics & Resistance?
"Antibiotics are medicines that kill infectious bacteria inside the body without harming animal cells."
Antibiotics such as penicillin are used to treat:
Why is it important that specific bacteria are treated with specific antibiotics?
Which statement about painkillers is correct?
Why is antibiotic resistance a serious problem?
Key Drug Types
Antibiotics kill bacteria but cannot kill viral pathogens.
Painkillers treat the symptoms of disease but do not kill the pathogens themselves.
Overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria, such as MRSA.
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