BIO 3124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Beta-Lactam, Aminopenicillin, Ciprofloxacin
10 Dec 2016
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Ionizing radiation: works by damaging dna and causing mutations in dna, method of choice to sterilize huge volumes. Ultra violet: drawback: penetration by uv is very low, at most 1mm. If you want to sterilize a glass of (cid:449)ater uv (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e effi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t. Only works if you use it with something that contains water. All the methods we saw work by killing, this one removes not kills. Different size filters are used depending on what the content is. Everything remains intact, can use to sterilize air. Exam question: want to build houses, want them to have possibility to sterilize before taking a shower, Uv light, toilet bowl water will not be sterile though. Keep in mind antibiotic is specific for bacteria. : compound produced by a microorganism that could inhibit or kill other micro bacteria. Semisynthetic antibiotics: antibiotics that fit old def. but modified in the lab (less toxic etc. )
