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Chris McManus Antibiotics Antibiotics are split into two separate groups, biocidal and biostatic. Biocidal antibiotics simply destroy their target whereas biostatic antibiotics inhibit the growth of particular bacteria and their reproduction, this enable the human immune system to overcome the infectious bacteria. The one thing that all types of antibiotic have in common is in their definition, which is that they all are produced from microorganisms usually in the form of bacteria or fungi. Although this is now being complicated because chemists can alter the structure of naturally found bacteria to increase its effectiveness. What's more is that bacteria destroying compounds can be found in certain plants, insects and amphibians. An example of naturally found bacteria being changed (semi-synthetic bacteria) is the antibiotic penicillin. This particular antibiotic is now used practically worldwide for many different bacterial infections. Furthermore, some antibiotics that are used nowadays are completely synthetic whereas when they were once...

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