Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Aided Drug Design

Antibiotics

Antibiotics are medicines that fight against bacterial infections in people and animals. Antibiotics are considered as anti-bacterial. It is the utmost important form of antibacterial agent fighting against bacterial infections, and antibiotic medications are extensively used in the treatment and inhibition of such infections. A restricted number of antibiotics also hold antiprotozoal activity. The most commonly used antibiotics are penicillin, ampicillin, cephalexin, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, erythromycin etc. Antibiotics are often used to treat protozoan infections. (Metronidazole is effective against a sum of parasitic diseases). Antibiotics may either kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria.