Question

Write short on microbes in medicine.

Answer 1

Antibiotics	Microbial sources	Medicinal values
Penicillin	Penicillium notatum	Inactivate gram positive bacteria like Pneumonia bacterium
Streptomycin	Streptomyces griseus	Cures urinary infections, T.B., meningitis and pneumonia
Aureomycin	Streptomyces aureofaciens	Cures osteomyelitis whooping cough and eye infections.
Chloromycin	Streptomyces venezuelae	Cures typhoid fever and dysentery
Bacitracin	Bacillus licheniformis	Cures syphilis.

Usually the microbes like bacteria and fungi are used for the production of antibiotics. The examples of antibiotics are penicillin, streptomycin, aureomycin and chloromycin. Such antibiotics prevent the growth and reproduction of microbes enter the living tissues of the host without disturbing normal metabolism of the host.