antiseptics and antibiotics

Question 1

what are antibacterials, how do humans use them

Answer 1

chemicals that plants make to protect them from attack by bacterial pathogens. humans use some of these antibacterials to help protect us from infection.

Question 2

what is a antibiotic

Answer 2

a chemical taken as medicine that kills some kinds of microorganisms. or stops them from growing, after they have infected the body

Question 3

what is a antibacterial

Answer 3

name for chemical that kills bacteria or stops them growing.

Question 4

what is a antifungal

Answer 4

chemical that kills fungi or stops them growing

Question 5

what is a antiseptic

Answer 5

chemical is used to prevent infection by killing pathogens on surfaces before they can get into the body.

Question 6

how can the risk of more people getting antibiotic resistant infections be reduced

Answer 6

can be reduced if antibiotics are only used when essential and each course of antibiotics is completed, so that the antibiotics and immune system kill all the resistant bacteria.

Question 7

how can bacteria resistant to antibiotics, such as MRSA, be produced

Answer 7

by the misuse of antibiotcs