THE action of numerous inorganic and organic substances on the growth of bacteria has been investigated in the hope of demonstrating properties useful either in the laboratory for selective and ...

Meningitis is another candidate for bactericidal drugs. Strikingly, a bacteriostatic drug can antagonize the action of a bactericidal one in the treatment of meningitis. In treating urinary tract ...

Aminoglycosides are bacteriostatic; they slow down the growth ... to the 30S ribosome subunit but have a different method of action to aminoglycosides. Instead of preventing proof-reading of ...