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Term | Definition | Rating |
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APUA | Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics | |
CRASH | Cultures Resuscitation And Antibiotics Started Here | |
ABX | AntiBiotics | |
IVABs | Intravenous Antibiotics | |
ABX | antibiotics | |
SASH | Saline Antibiotics Saline and Heparin | |
APUA | Alliance for Prudent Use of Antibiotics | |
EAAD | European Antibiotics Awareness Day | |
RWA | Raised Without Antibiotics | |
GAPL | Goa Antibiotics and Pharmaceuticals Ltd | |
NAE | No Antibiotics Ever | |
NIPA | National Information Program on Antibiotics | |
KAPL | Karnataka Antibiotics Pharmaceuticals Ltd | |
APUA | Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics | |
APUA | Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics | |
SRGA | Swedish Reference Group for Antibiotics | |
SRGA | Swedish Reference Group for Antibiotics | |
HIAT | Home Intravenous Antibiotics Therapy | |
HIAT | Home Intravenous Antibiotics Therapy |
What does antibiotics mean?
- Antibiotics
- An antibiotic is an agent that either kills or inhibits the growth of a microorganism. The term antibiotic was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution. This definition excluded substances that kill bacteria but that are not produced by microorganisms. It also excluded synthetic antibacterial compounds such as the sulfonamides. Many antibacterial compounds are relatively small molecules with a molecular weight of less than 2000 atomic mass units. With advances in medicinal chemistry, most modern antibacterials are semisynthetic modifications of various natural compounds. These include, for example, the beta-lactam antibiotics, which include the penicillins, the cephalosporins, and the carbapenems. Compounds that are still isolated from living organisms are the aminoglycosides, whereas other antibacterials—for example, the sulfonamides, the quinolones, and the oxazolidinones—are produced solely by chemical synthesis. In accordance with this, many antibacterial compounds are classified on the basis of chemical/biosynthetic origin into natural, semisynthetic, and synthetic. Another classification system is based on biological activity; in this classification, antibacterials are divided into two broad groups according to their biological effect on microorganisms: Bactericidal agents kill bacteria, and bacteriostatic agents slow down or stall bacterial growth.
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