Biology GCSE
Antibiotics
What Antibiotics means in Biology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Treatments that kill bacteria or inhibit their growth, and so can treat bacterial infections but are ineffective against viruses.
Medicines that kill bacteria inside the body or stop them growing, so the immune system can clear the infection.
Substances that kill the bacterium causing gonorrhoea or inhibit its growth, reducing the source of infection.
Topics that use Antibiotics
- Antibiotics and painkillers (AQA GCSE)
- Bacterial diseases (AQA GCSE)
- Communicable (infectious) diseases (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotic resistance
- Toxins
- Antibiotics and treatment
- antibiotics versus antivirals
- Barrier contraception
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- Cell damage and symptoms
- Communicable diseases
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