Chemical Technology: An Indian Journal
ISSN (PRINT):0974-7443

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Antimicrobial Agents Innovations

An antimicrobial is an agent that finishes microorganisms or stops their growth. Antimicrobial medicines can be grouped as per the microorganisms they act primarily against. For example, antibiotics are used against bacteria, and antifungals are used against fungi. They can also be divided according to their function. Agents that kill microbes are microbicidal, while those that merely stop their growth are called biostatic. The use of antimicrobial medicines to cure infection is known as antimicrobial chemotherapy, while the use of antimicrobial medicines to prevent infection is known as antimicrobial prophylaxis.   The main classes of antimicrobial agents are disinfectants (non-selective agents, such as bleach), which kill a wide range of microbes on non-living surfaces to prevent the spread of illness, antiseptics (which are applied to living tissue and help decrease infection during surgery), and antibiotics (which destroy microorganisms within the body). The term "antibiotic" originally described only those formulations derived from living microorganisms but is now also applied to synthetic agents, such as sulfonamides or fluoroquinolones. The term also used to be restricted to antibacterials, but its context has broadened to comprise  all antimicrobials. Antibacterial agents can be further subclassified into bactericidal agents, which kill bacteria, and bacteriostatic agents, which slow downs or stops bacterial growth. 

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