Section outline

  • Some antibiotics are mainly effective against bacteria and include :

    • Drugs that inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis or desorganise its structure 
    • Drugs that inhibit protein synthesis through binding to 30S or 50S sub-units of ribosomes
    • Drugs that inhibit DNA replication
    • Drugs that inhibit RNA synthesis
    • Antimetabolites (disruption of specific biochemichal reactions)
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