It quickly became obvious that to understand how penicillin was functioning ... by which I meant an antibody reaction—against peptidoglycan. My knowledge of immunology in the 1960s was very ...

Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

Penicillin G benzathine 600,000 units/mL ... It acts through the inhibition of biosynthesis of cell-wall peptidoglycan, rendering the cell wall osmotically unstable resulting in death of the ...