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April 12, 2013
One of the medications dispensed at the pharmacy, are antibiotics, whose invention is attributed to Fleming, but was really the discoverer? According to the Spanish Royal Academy an antibiotic is a chemical substance produced by a living or manufactured synthetically, could paralyze development of certain pathogens, for its bacteriostatic action, or cause their death, for its bactericidal action. Self-prescribing of antibiotics is common among Latinos in the US. Although there is consistent evidence of a link between antibiotic use and increasing antimicrobial resistance in the community,...
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April 12, 2013
Los antibióticos son sustancias que fabrican los microbios y producen la muerte de otros organismos (su nombre deriva del griego y significa “contra la vida”). En 1875 , el naturalista irlandés John Tyndall (imagen) descubrió el primer antibiotico, producido por el hongo Penicillium. El descubrimiento pasó inadvertido, porque en esa época se ignoraba que las enfermedades infecciosas eran producidas por bacterias. Estamos acostumbrados, nosotros los latinos, a tomar antibióticos a diestra y siniestra , pues en nuestros países las recetas médicas son solo necesarias cuando el caso es mayor...
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