Question

How do antibiotics cause disease?

Answer 1

• Microorganisms are surviving due to their certain biochemical pathway. Such as in respiration and enzyme synthesis.
• Antibiotics binds with their precursor needed to follow these pathways and when the essential life processes are absent it blocks them and microorganisms get killed.

For example:

• Penicillin by blocking the cell wall formation in the bacteria kills the bacterium.
• As the diseases causing microorganisms got dead then there will be no more microorganisms are produced and the person become recovering from the disease.