Antibiotics and painkillers

• Some diseases can be treated with antibiotics.
• Vaccinations allow protection against specific diseases, but the level of protection depends on the amount of people vaccinated.
• In infection and response, antibiotics and painkillers are important topics.
• Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, as bacteria develop ways to resist the effects of antibiotics.
• Bacterial growth in cultures and bacterial calculations are required practical activities in infection and response.
• The effect of antibiotics and antiseptics is a topic in infection and response.
• The discovery of new drugs and the development and testing of new drugs are important aspects of infection and response.
• Since their introduction, antibiotics have had a large influence on the world's health and death rate.
• Penicillin damages the bacterial cells but does not damage the host cells.
• Developing antiviral drugs is difficult as they might damage the host cell while killing the virus.
• Penicillin was the first antibiotic discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming.
• Different bacteria cause different diseases, meaning that a range of different antibiotics is needed for the treatment of the whole range of bacterial diseases.
• Viral diseases cannot be cured by antibiotics, as they reproduce inside the host cells.
• Amoxicillin can be used to cure diseases by killing the pathogen, but only cures bacterial diseases and not viral ones.
• Antibiotics have the ability to cure some bacterial diseases that would have previously killed many people.