Why do antibiotics like penicillin not work when treating malarial infection?

Question

A). Penicillin inhibits proteins that link peptidoglycan in an organism's cell wall.

B). Penicillin inhibits diffusion across a cell membrane.

C). Penicillin is a cure for viruses.

D). Penicillin only kills eukaryotic cells.

Answer 1

The answer to this question is A.

Some bacteria have a large outer cell wall composed of peptidoglycan. As a rule, antibiotics work either to kill a cell or prevent a cell from diving and growing its population even further. Penicillin works by blocking the formation of the peptidoglycan-based cell wall in notably gram-positive bacteria. Malaria species do not possess an outer peptidoglycan-based cell wall, so penicillin is inactive against Malaria species.