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erniet's avatar

So the reason it wouldn't deserve the penicillin moniker is because penicillin is a deep, broad-spectum anti-biotic effective against all bacteria (to a greater or lesser degree). This is in contrast to narrow-spectrum antibiotics (which effect either gram-negative or gram-positive) or shallow (azythromycin, e.g. antibiotics effective against a limited tyoe of infections). I know this because I'm allergic to every broad spectrum antibiotic except one!😂 My doc says I get an infection resistant to doxycyclene and it's straight to injectibles...😂

Very cool how you rolled those properties into the story...

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Honeygloom's avatar

Meant to add that it sucks to be allergic to antibiotics, must be kind of terrifying.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Thank you!! As much as I love the research I can’t always take the time to really understand the minutiae, so this is awesome!

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