bactericidal

Examples of bactericidal in the following topics:

• Antibiotic Classifications

  • Bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria; bacteriostatic antibiotics slow their growth or reproduction.
  • Bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria; bacteriostatic antibiotics inhibit their growth or reproduction.
  • One way that bactericidal antibodies kill bacteria is by inhibiting cell wall synthesis.
  • However, there is not always a precise distinction between them and bactericidal antibiotics.
  • High concentrations of some bacteriostatic agents are also bactericidal.

• Damage to Proteins and Nucleic Acids

  • This is in contrast to bactericides, which kill bacteria.
  • However, there is not always a precise distinction between them and bactericidal antibiotics.
  • High concentrations of some bacteriostatic agents are also bactericidal, whereas low concentrations of some bacteriocidal agents are bacteriostatic.

• Biological Control of Microbes

  • Those that result in bacterial death are called bactericidal agents.

• Bile

  • Bile salts also act as bactericides, destroying many of the microbes that may be present in the food.

• Production of Vaccines, Antibiotics, and Hormones

  • In this classification, antibiotics 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 .

• Normal Eye Microbiota

  • Tears contain bactericides such as lysozyme, so that microorganisms have difficulty in surviving the lysozyme and settling on the epithelial surfaces.

• Prostatitis

  • The antibiotics of choice should be bactericidal (e.g., quinolone) not bacteriostatic (e.g., tetracycline) if the infection is life-threatening.

• Effective Disinfection

  • For this reason, some question the wisdom of impregnating cloths, cutting boards, and worktops in the home with bactericidal chemicals .

• Rate of Microbial Death

  • Such death curves can be empirically established for all bactericidal agents.

• Alteration of Membrane Permeability

  • Gramicidin's bactericidal activity is a result of increasing the permeability of the bacterial cell membrane, allowing inorganic monovalent cations (e.g.