Question

what are the differences between narrow spectrum antibiotics and broad spectrum antibiotics?​

Answer 1

Narrow spectrum antibiotics are used for the specific infection when the causative organism is known and will not kill as many of the normal microorganisms in the body as the broad spectrum antibiotics. So, It has less ability to cause superinfection. These cause less resistance of the bacteria as it will deal with only specific bacteria

Antibiotic that acts against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria and used for For drug resistant bacteria, In super-infections and empirically prior to identifying the causative bacteria. A broad spectrum antibiotic acts against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, in contrast to a narrow-spectrum antibiotic, which is effective against specific families of bacteria.