Question

What is the difference between limited spectrum antibiotic and narrow spectrum antibiotic?

Answer 1

Narrow Spectrum:

Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotics. Narrow-spectrum antibiotics are only effective against a narrow range of bacteria. For example, penicillin G is very effective at killing gram-positive bacteria, but not very effective against gram-negative bacteria.

Limited Spectrum:

Limited spectrum are otherwise called as Narrow spectrum antibiotics.It acts on specific bacteria's only.

eg: Penincillin- G