3 Drugs Flashcards
What do many drugs such as painkillers do
Reduce the symptoms of the disease but don’t kill pathogens
What are antibiotics such as penicillin
They are drugs that kill bacteria but don’t destroy viruses
What do you antibiotics do and why is it important to be treated with the right one
Kill specific bacteria
How does viruses make it difficult to develop drugs against them
They reproduce inside body cells
What has antibiotics done to the number of deaths from communicable diseases caused by bacteria
Reduce them
What can bacteria day
Mutate leading to the development of antibiotic resistant strains
Originally what were drugs extracted from
Plants and microorganisms e.g. penicillin from mould
What are many drugs now done by chemists in from pharmaceuticals
Synthesised but they may still begin with a plant chemical
Why is it important not to over use antibiotics
To slow down the rate of development of resistant strains
Who discovered penicillin and how was it discovered
Alexander Fleming. He noticed one of his petri dishes of bacteria had mould on it and the area around the mould was free of bacteria. He found out that the mould on the Petri dish just was producing penicillin that kill the bacteria
Which drugs originate from Willow
Penicillin
