Once the infection has set in, it causes symptoms related to the site of infection eg. a urinary tract infection will cause burning during micturition, fever, skin infection will lead to the formation of pus, chest infection to expectoration, etc. When such symptoms are evident the person needs usually antibiotic medicines to kill these bacteria. But can antibiotics be taken without knowledge and prescription……….NO………they should never be.
So now comes the question – which antibiotic out of the hundreds available?
Whether a common man or a treating physician, the answer to the above lies with the microbiologist. It is only after the culture of the appropriate specimen, that the microbiologist can confirm whether it is actually a bacterial infection or not and if it is, then the bacteria causing infection is grown and the antibiotics that will be useful in that case will be tested. We at Apollo Clinic, Chandigarh practice this with utmost care and give the best results possible.
