Antibiotics and Bacterial Infections

Mechanism : Antibiotics

Antibiotic action falls under main five mechanism

• Inhibition of Cell Wall Synthesis
• Inhibition of Protein Synthesis (Translation)
• Alteration of Cell Membranes
• Inhibition of Nucleic Acid Synthesis
• Antimetabolite Activity

Different antibiotics have different modes of action, owing to the nature of their structure and degree of affinity to certain target sites within bacterial cells.