On (23 Jul 96) Chuck Pollet Rambled On  To All...
 CP> When researching medications for my fresh water fish, I have a wide
 CP> range at my disposal.  They are always mentioning gram negative ve
 CP> gram positive.  Can someone fill me in on what I need to pay attention
 CP> to on these?  What is that? --- CNet/3
   A way of identifying germs, and selecting
   proper antibiotic,  a wide spectrum would affect
   both, but a antibiotic effective on gram neg  would be less
   effective or useless vd gram pos.
   Some bacteria are normally  either gram neg or gram pos,
   the problem is unless you got a lab, you  cannot Id the germs,
   best use a wide spectrum, unless the disease is caused
   only by a particular germ, and which is listed as
   being a gram neg or pos type, and then you would
   select a antibiotic effective specifically vs gram neg or gram pos.
   If you look into some medicine books on human disease,
   certain ones are said to be caused by (fill in germ)
   and it is often of a specific type gram neg or gram pos.
   Which is why some antibiotics are useless for certain diseases.
 
 
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