Question

1. Which of the following antibiotics is/are inhibitors of bacterial cell wall synthesis?

   		vancomycin
   		erythromycin
   		gentamicin
   		both (b) and (c)
   		Chloroquine

Answer 1

ANSWER.

D) Both (b) and (c).

B) Erythromycin.

C) Gentamycin.

Erythromycin belongs to macrolide antibiotics and Gentamycin belongs to aminoglycoside antibiotics. We know that antibiotics like aminoglycosides, macrolides and others like mupirocins, lincosamides, chloramphenicol,etc are inhibitors of bacterial cell wall synthesis.This are bactiriciadals and broad spectrum antibiotics. This inhibits the bacterial cell wall synthesis by binding 30s ribosomes.

So Erythromycin and Gentamycin are inhibitors of bacterial cell wall synthesis.