You’ve been taking the azithromycin for three days, but your throat is still on fire and now you are running a fever. you call the doctor. she says you likely have a resistant strain of streptococcus pyogenes. she prescribes another antibiotic, cefadroxil, which belongs to a class of antibiotics called cephalosporins.
your friend wants to know how you became resistant to an antibiotic. what do you tell her?
what is the cell structure target of cephalosporins? explain how this leads to selective toxicity.
how do you think your life would be different without effective antibiotics?