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"mytomycin" antibiotic can remove pasmid from bacterial cell and infectious agent in "cholisteridium tetany" is on its plasmid.

2006-10-21 03:02:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diseases & Conditions Infectious Diseases

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Mitomycin is an anticancer drug. Why would you want to treat a bacterial infection caused by clostridium tetani with it?

2006-10-21 03:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by lynwin552 3 · 0 0

Penicillin is still an effective antibiotic for clostridium tetani. Even then, its use is controversial. Symptoms occur when the toxin is already produced and bound. The idea is to keep the patient alive with symptomatic treatment for three weeks, when he gets over the infection and is cured.

2006-10-21 12:41:28 · answer #2 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0 0

Simple biochemical answer: no - the antibiotic will not penetrate the cell wall of the clostridium.

2006-10-21 15:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by Bacteria Boy 4 · 0 0

Where are you going to get either? I believe that the antibiotic is a prescription one.

2006-10-21 12:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0 0

yes and no, theoretically you can but non-infected cells (healthy cells) will also be destroyed by the mytomycin which will kill the patient

2006-10-21 10:04:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Please see the webpages for more details on Tetanus.

2006-10-21 10:44:10 · answer #6 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0 0

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