Most bacteria are benign or even beneficial. But not all of them. Bacteria cause about 8 million deaths every year. And they cause many times more infections than that. (See my posts Human Pathogenic Bacteria I and Human Pathogenic Bacteria II). But we have a way to fight back. We have developed dozens of antibiotic drugs for treating human infections.
The following images are inspired by (but do not accurately depict) some of the antibiotics we've developed to stop bacteria in their tracks.
Dicloxacillin
Doripenem
Doxycycline
Enoxacin
Ertapenem
Erythromycin
Ethambutol
Ethionamide
Fidaxomicin
Flucloxacillin
Fosfomycin
Furazolidone
Fusidic Acid
Gatifloxacin
Geldanamycin
Gemifloxacin
Gentamicin
Grepafloxacin
Herbimycin
Imipenem
Isoniazid
Kanamycin
Levofloxacin
Lincomycin
Linezolid
Lomefloxacin
Loracarbef
Mafenide
Meropenem
Metacycline
Methicillin
Metronidazole
Mezlocillin
Minocycline
Moxalactam
Moxifloxacin
Mupirocin
Nadifloxacin
Nafcillin
Nalidixic Acid
Neomycin
Netilmicin
Nitrofurantoin
Norfloxacin
Ofloxacin
Oritavancin
Oxacillin
Oxytetracyline
Paromomycin
These illustrations were drawn using Stable Diffusion 2.1.
