The spirally shaped aerial spore chains typical of the genus Streptomyces are seen in this image. Higher magnification of some of the aerial hyphae and spore chains. Figure E. Agar plate showing inhibition of fungal growth by a contaminating colony of Bacillus species. Image supplied by IW Sutherland. Producer organism. Site or mode of action.
Penicillium chrysogenum. Why are there so few clinically useful antibiotics? Several hundreds of compounds with antibiotic activity have been isolated from microorganisms over the years, but only a few of them are clinically useful. The reason for this is that only compounds with selective toxicity can be used clinically - they must be highly effective against a microorganism but have minimal toxicity to humans.
In practice, this is expressed in terms of the therapeutic index - the ratio of the toxic dose to the therapeutic dose. The larger the index, the better is its therapeutic value. It will be seen from the table above, that most of the antibacterial agents act on bacterial wall synthesis or protein synthesis.
Peptidoglycan is one of the major wall targets because it is found only in bacteria. Some of the other compounds target bacterial protein synthesis, because bacterial ribosomes termed 70S ribosomes are different from the ribosomes 80S of humans and other eukaryotic organisms.
Similarly, the one antifungal agent shown in the table griseofulvin binds specifically to the tubulin proteins that make up the microtubules of fungal cells; these tubulins are somewhat different from the tubulins of humans. Comparing the antibiotic sensitivity of different bacteria. Figure F. Antibiotic-sensitivity testing. Petri dishes were spread-inoculated with Staphylococcus albus white growth or Micrococcus luteus yellow growth before antibiotic assay "rings" were placed on the agar surface.
The coloured disks at the end of each spoke of the rungs are impregnated with different antibiotics. Clockwise from the top arrow these are: Novobiocin, Penicillin G, Streptomycin white disk , Tetracycline, Chloramphenicol, Erythromycin, Fusidic acid green disk and Methicillin.
Clear zones of suppression of bacterial growth around the individual antibiotic disks are evidence of sensitivity to these antibiotics. The diameter of the clear zone is related to the initial antibiotic concentration which differs for the antibiotics on the ring , its solubility and its diffusion rate through agar. Standard tests performed on many bacteria by the manufacturers of these assay disks enable the diameter of the clearing zone to be related to the minimum inhibitory concentration MIC of each antibiotic for the strain being tested.
The MIC can then be compared with the known tissue levels of these antibiotics when they are administered to patients, to assess whether the antibiotics would be effective for treatment of particular pathogens.
The repeated or continued use of antibiotics creates selection pressure favouring the growth of antibiotic-resistant mutants. These can be detected by comparing the size of clearing zones or even the complete absence of clearing zones of bacterial strains in plate assays such as those above.
By the use of these disks it is also possible to detect the occurrence of individual mutant cells with antibiotic resistance in a culture of a strain that is sensitive to antibiotics. An example of this is shown in Figure G below. Figure G.
Effects of different antibiotics on growth of a Bacillus strain. The right-hand image shows a close-up of the novobiocin disk marked by an arrow on the whole plate. In this case some individual mutant cells in the bacterial population were resistant to the antibiotic and have given rise to small colonies in the zone of inhibition. Antibiotic resistance is not a recent phenomenon.
On the contrary, this problem was recognised soon after the natural penicillins were introduced for disease control, and bacterial strains held in culture collections from before "the antibiotic era" have also been found to harbour antibiotic-resistance genes.
However, in some cases the situation has now become alarming, with the emergence of pathogenic strains that show multiple resistance to a broad range of antibiotics.
One of the most important examples concerns multiple-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus in hospitals. Some of these strains cause serious nosocomial hospital-acquired infections and are resistant to virtually all the useful antibiotics, including methicillin , cephalosporins and other beta-lactams that target peptidoglycan synthesis, the macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin and the aminoglycoside antibiotics such as streptomycin and neomycin , all of which target the bacterial ribosome.
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The detection of these antagonistic substances revealed interesting properties that justify its importance and its study on the potential application in biological control of pathogenic microorganisms and spoilage food. For these reasons, the biochemical nature and the best conditions to production of the substances studied in this work are being investigated to further purification experiments.
Many microorganisms have been evaluated for the production of antimicrobial substance. However the high cost and low yields have been the main problem for its industrial production In the present study, the microbial isolates with antimicrobial activity from soil were isolated.
Among all screened isolates, Penicillium chrysogenum metabolite showed maximum inhibition against both gram positive as well as gram negative bacteria. Production of antibiotic by microorganisms from soil is affected by many factors including nitrogen and carbon source.
Therefore there is a great need to optimize with different substrates that provides maximum production of antimicrobial substance. Int J Pharm Sci Res 4 8 ; Article Information Sr No: Download: Cited By: Authors Address: Dr.
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