Antibiotics & Antiinfectives

A drug used to treat infections caused by bacteria and other microorganisms is known as Antibiotics. It is a compound or substance that kills or slow down the growth of bacteria. Originally, an antibiotic was a substance produced by one microorganism that selectively inhibits the growth of another.Few Antibiotics are tetracycline,penicillin and many more. When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Four types of anti-infective or drugs exist: antibacterial (antibiotic), antiviral, antitubercular, and antifungal. Depending on the severity and the type of infection, the antibiotic may be given by mouth, injection or may be applied topicallyThe symptoms of an infection affect the whole body generally, such as fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, fevers, night sweats, chills, aches and pains. Others are specific to individual body parts, such as skin rashes, coughing, or a runny nose..

Amino Glycosides

An aminoglycoside is a molecule or a portion of a molecule composed of amino-modified sugars. Several aminoglycosides function as antibiotics that are effective against certain types of bacteria. Aminoglycosides have .....

Anthelmintics

Anthelmintic, any drug that acts against helminthic infections, i.e., those caused by parasitic worms. The term vermifuge is often applied to remedies used to remove intestinal worms; only rarely .....

Anti Bacterial

An antibacterial is an agent that interferes with the growth and reproduction of bacteria. While antibiotics and antibacterials both attack bacteria, these terms have evolved over the years to mean .....

Anti Protozoal

Antiprotozoal agents is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection. Protozoans have little in common with each other and so agents effective against one pathogen may not be .....

Anti Fungal

An antifungal medication is a medication used to treat fungal infections such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis (thrush), serious systemic infections such as cryptococcal meningitis, and others. Such drugs are .....

Anti Leprotics

A Leprostatic agent is a drug that interferes with proliferation of the bacterium that causes leprosy. .....

Anti Malarial

"Antimalarial medications, also known as antimalarials, are designed to prevent or cure malaria. Such drugs may be used for some or all of the following: 1. Treatment of malaria in individuals .....

Anti Retroviral

"Antiretroviral drugs are medications for the treatment of infection by retroviruses, primarily HIV. Different classes of antiretroviral drugs act at different stages of the HIV life cycle. Combination of several (typically .....

Anti Tuberculosis

"Tuberculosis treatment refers to the medical treatment of the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB). The standard ""short"" course treatment for TB is isoniazid, rifampicin (also known as rifampin in the United States), .....

Anti Viral

"Antiviral drugs (antivirotics) are a class of medication used specifically for treating viral infections. Like antibiotics for bacteria, specific antivirals are used for specific viruses. Unlike most antibiotics, antiviral drugs .....

Carbapenems

"CARBAPENEMS are a class of beta-lactum, broad spectrum antibiotics which act by inhibiting the cell wall synthesis and are known to be most effective against gram negative infections. Carbapenems, often .....

Cephalosporin

 .....

Chloramphenicol

Cephalosporins are the most frequently prescribed class of antibiotics. They are structurally and pharmacologically related to the penicillins. Like the penicillins, cephalosporins have a beta-lactam ring structure that interferes with .....

Glycylcyclines

Glycylcyclines are a new class of antibiotics derived from tetracycline. These tetracycline analogues are specifically designed to overcome two common mechanisms of tetracycline resistance, namely resistance mediated by acquired efflux .....

Macrolides

Antibiotic macrolides are used to treat infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria (e.g. Streptococcus pneumoniae) and Haemophilus influenzae infections such as respiratory tract and soft-tissue infections. The antimicrobial spectrum of macrolides .....

Oxazolidinones

Oxazolidinones are mainly used as antimicrobials. The antibacterial effect of oxazolidinones is by working as protein synthesis inhibitors, targeting an early step involving the binding of N-formylmethionyl-tRNA to the ribosome. .....

Penicillin

Penicillin (sometimes abbreviated PCN or pen) is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi.[1] They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V. Penicillin antibiotics are historically .....

Quinolones

The quinolones are a family of synthetic broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs The first generation of the quinolones begins with the introduction of nalidixic acid in 1962 for treatment of urinary tract .....

Sulphonamides

"Sulfonamide or sulphonamide is the basis of several groups of drugs. The original antibacterial sulfonamides (sometimes called sulfa drugs or sulpha drugs) are synthetic antimicrobial agents that contain the sulfonamide .....

Tetracycline

Tetracyclines are a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics whose general usefulness has been reduced with the onset of bacterial resistance. Despite this, they remain the treatment of choice for some specific .....