It is an antibiotic, mostly used to fight various infections type bacterial. It is closely related to penicillin, being a semisynthetic version of it. As the 1950s and 1961s passed, it was discovered, where Beecham's laboratories used to be, it was discovered; The reason for the research to find derivatives of penicillin with greater resistance and strength, to evade the strains that managed to neutralize the effects of that. It is classified as an aminopenicillin, being one of the main ones, along with the one known as amoxicillin.
It is administered orally and is absorbed, binding to some proteins; Furthermore, it penetrates bacteria, interfering with cell walls and preventing their reproduction, leading them to bind with some proteins belonging to ampicillin, although some contain strains that are not very sensitive to its effect. Enterococci, salmonella, listeria, shigella, staphylococci, and streptococci are bacteria that can be killed with the use of ampicillin. These germs cause terrible diseases such as meningitis, salmonellosis, listeriosis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.
Similarly, it also produces some side effects in individuals who use it, such as diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, infections in the genital areas, hives, abdominal pain and bronchial obstruction. Likewise, it is used in scientific research to be able to catch some genes and insert them into bacteria, to be able to observe how they react and the effects that this foreign entity causes within the germ; ampicillin comes into play when the bacteria are grown, that is, created and multiplied, within a crowded environment.
