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Grade upto college level Physical Chemistry

Example what do you understand by spectrum of an antibiotic.

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12 Years agoGrade upto college level
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11 Years ago
Antibiotics ,the substances used to inhibit or destroy other micro-organims are either narrow-spectrum or broad-spectrum.Here the term ‘spectrum‘ refers to the full range of micro-organisms attacked by an antibiotic.For ex- Penicillin has a narrow spectrum used in case of pneumonia,bronchitis while chloramphenicol which is an borad-spectrum can be used in typhoid,dysentery,meningitis,pneumonia etc.