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A patient suffers from a fungal infection; which medicine are you going to prescribe? penicillin daptomycin...

A patient suffers from a fungal infection; which medicine are you going to prescribe?

  1. penicillin
  2. daptomycin
  3. None of the proposed answers are good medicine
  4. Tetracycline
  5. Platensimycin

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C- None of the proposed answers are good medicine for fungal infection.

These all are antibiotics which acts against bacterial infections.

1-penicillin is a group of antibiotics, derived originally from common moulds known as penicillin moulds.Penicillin V is an antibiotic in the penicillin group of drugs. It fights bacteria in our body and used to treat many different types of infections caused by bacteria such as ear infections.

2- Deptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic derived from the organism streptomyces roseosporous.It is used for the treatment of various bacterial infections caused by gram positive bacteria , including methicillin- resistant staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin - resistant Enterococci.

4- Tetracycline is used to treat many different bacterial infections of the skin , intestines, respiratory tract , urinary tract , genitals , lymphnodes and other body systems. It is often used in treating severe acne or sexually transmitted diseases such as syphillis ,gonorrhea or chlamydia.

5- Platensimycin , a metabolite of streptomyces platensis, which is an example of a unique structural class of natural antibiotics , has been demonstrated to be a breakthrough in recent antibiotic research due to its unique functional pattern and significant antibacterial activity.

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