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BETA-LACTAM ABX

CATEGORIES
1. Penicillin (-cillin's)
G = IV
V = ORAL

2. Cephalosporins
1st, 2nd, 3rd gen
- increasing gram neg activity
- decreasing gram + activity

3. Carbapenems:
Imipenem: decerebrate abx
- high seizure potential

4. Monobactam (Aztreonam)

BETA-LACTAM ABX
- poor intracellular penetration
- least toxic abx
- bacteriocidal
- time dependent
BETA LACTAM ABX

MECHANISM OF AXN
Bind & competitively inhibits Transpeptidase = Penicillin Binding Protein

Bactericidal = kills bacteria

*Gram-neg bugs: pass through PORINS in outer membrane to reach cell wall
BETA LACTAM ABX

- RESISTANCE
SIX Ps: Penetration, porins, pumps, penicillinases, PBPs, Peptidoglycan


1. Alter the drug = drug inactivation
Beta-lactamases: Cleave C-N bond
ex// ESBL, penicillinase, cephalosporinase
*Gram+ bugs secrete penicillinase
*Gram- bugs have it bound to cytoplasmic membrane

2. Alter drug target: Change PBPs
ex// MRSA

3. Can't reach/touch target
- porin pore mtt (gram-neg)
- Efflux pumps
six P's of Penicillin inactivity
1. Penetration ( intracellular )
2. Porins (gram-neg)
3. Pumps (efflux) - decrease [ ] @ target site
4. PBPs: mtts
5. Peptidoglycan: absent in mycoplasma
6. Penicillinases: beta lactamases
- MAJOR
BETA LACTAM ABX

- Elimination
MOSTLY RENAL

Major exception:
CEFTRIAXONE (3rd gen ceph)
- biliary & renal elimination: intern's drug
beta lactam abx

TOXICITY
REALLY NONTOXIC,
BUT MCC OF ABX ALLERGIC RXN

HYPERSENSITIVITY
1. IgE - angioedema, laryngeal edema, anaphylaxis

2. IgG: hematologic, nephritis

3. IgG & C' = immune complex
- serum sickness & vasculitis

4. T cell: delayed rash = VERY COMMON
(esp when you give amox to pt w/ a virus

OTHERS:
- Seizures
- disulfiram like rxn w/ cefotetan
- Bone marrow suppression
- Diarrhea (abx- associated colitis 2' C. dif)
**pregnancy category B**
**Except Imipenem = Category C**
PENICILLIN

- types
4 TYPES:
1. Penicillin G / V

2. Penicillinase-R
- methicillin, nafcillin, dicloxacillin, clox
(oral "clocks" & i MET a NAsty OX)

3. Anti-Pseudomonal
- James Bond: Car, Tic, Pipe
Carbenicillin, ticarcillin, Piperacillin & mezlocillin

4. Aminopenicillins:
- broader spectrum ("AMPed" up Pen)
- more gram-neg (enterics - HELPS)
**one of few 2 kill gram+ enterococcus**
PENICILLIN

- clinical use/DOC
- used with?
1. Strep Pneumo Pneumonia or N. meningitidis/S. pneumo meningitis
- Pen G or amp

2. GAS pharyngitis: Pen V

3. Listeria infxn: oral amp

4. non-MRSA Staph aureus: Penicillinase-R
*use NAF for STAPH*

5. Pseudomonase: TCP
- takes care of pseudomonas
- other select gram- rod

6. Cat bite: Pasturella multocida & anaerobes

7. Gram+: B. anthracis, C. perfringens. Listeria

8. Spirochetes
- Treponema pallidum: depot PCN G

9. Acute OM & Sinusitis: Amox

10. Select mixed abd infxns: Pip/Tazo

11. Enterococcal endocarditis: give w/ aminoglycoside

12. Clostridial myonecrosis

**Used w/ CAST = B-lactamase inhibitors
PENICILLIN

- Distribution
- toxicity (mechanisms)
Wide distribution
- except eye, prostate, CSF, brain, phagocytes
*CSF penetration ^ w/ inflamm

Short 1/2 lives

Pen & degradation products = HAPTENS
- induce Ab formation
- IgE mediated skin tests
- Cross allergy w/ ceph & carbapenems (5-10%)

*Use Monobactam if penicillin allergy
*Use ceph if non-IgE rxn 2 pen

Naf: Bone marrow depression w/ LT use
Amp/Amox: in EBV = RASH
beta-lactamase inhibitors
CAST
- Clavulanic acid
- sulbactam
- tazobactam

*given as an adjunct w/ penicillin abx*
Penicillin resistant

- mechanisms
- common organisms
1. drug inactivation w/ b-lactamases
- S. aureua, N. gonorrhea, Aerobic & anaerobic gram-neg

2. Target alteration
a.) MRSA
- changed transpeptidase (D-ala terminus)
- tx w/ vanco
*VRSA: treated with daptomycin

b.) S. pneumo
c.) Enterococcus faecium
- pcns are only bacteriostatic here
CEPHALOSPORINS

- general advantages
- general classifications

*1st and 2nd gen = narrowest (gram+ mostly)
*3rd & 4th gen = extended spectrum (also gram-)
pros:
1. new "basement" = more resistant to penicillinases
2. new R group side chain

1st gen: PH.D + CeFAZolin
- PEcK + gram+cocci

2nd gen: Fam, Fa, Fur, Fox, Tea
- HEN PEcKS

3rd gen: T's (for TRI)
*major resistant gram-negs*
- Ceftriaxone: meningitis & gonorrhea
- Ceftazidime: Pseudomonas

4th gen: Cefepime
- Pseudomonas & more gram+
CEPHALOSPORINS

- DOC
1. 3rd & 4th gen = meningitis
- good CSF penetration w/ inflamm

2. Sx prophylaxis: 1st gen
3. Skin infxns (MSSA or strep): 1st gen
4. N. Gonorrhea: 3rd gen
**Ceftriaxone: meningitis & gonorrhea**

5. Pseudomonas sepsis: Ceftazidime, Cefoperazone cefepime
(Give it TAZ, FOP, FEP)
6. CA-bacterial pneumonia (H. flu or S. pneumo)
- 2nd gen: Cefuroxime

7. Anaerobic Coverage: 2nd gen
- Cefotetan, Cefoxitin, Cefmetazole**
(FOX Met an anaerobic bug for TEA)
CEPHALOSPORINS

- unique toxicity & elimination
- resistance
CEFTRIAXONE
- Biliary/gallbladder sludge
- renal & biliary excretion

Beta-lactamase production by gram-neg rods can be INDUCED by giving 3rd & 4th gen cephs

does NOT work against Listeria or Enterococcus or MRSA

**cross allergy 10-15% w/ PCN
- don't use if IgE rxn in PCN
CARBAPENEMS

- special traits
BROADEST COVERAGE: esp imipenem
(decerebrate abx - covers all)
- smallest b-lactam
- resistant to b-lactamases (including ESBLs)


*cross-reactive w/ PCN (allergy)*
CARBAPENEMS

- USE/ types
- toxicity
Imipenem/Cilastatin
- kills all, except MRSA, some Pseudomona
- limited use 2' SEs
- SEIZURES
**Cilastatin: Renal Dihydropeptidase Inhibitor


MEROPENEM: better version of imipenem

Ertapenem:
DOC for severe diabetic foot infxns
- does NOT cover Pseudomonas or enterococcus
AZTREONAM

(monobactam)

- mech
- use/DOC
beta-lactamase resistant

USE: GRAM-NEG AEROBIC RODS
- does NOT bind 2 transpeptidase of gram+ bacteria
- also use in pts w/ PCN allergy
- used in combo w/ gram+ killer usually

MECH: "A TREe fell on the house" --> negative experience
Beta-lactamase resistant beta-lactams
1. Penicillinase-R Beta Lactams
- met, naf, ox

2. Aztreonam (monobactam)

3. Carbapenems
ABX THAT COVER PSEUDOMONAS
1. Anti-pseudomonal PCN
- Car, tic, Pipe
- Zosyn

2. 3rd gen & 4th gen ceph
- TAZ, FOP, FEP

3. Imipenem

4. Aztreonam

5. Quinolones
- Ciprofloxacin

6. Aminoglycosides
- gent
- tobra
- amikacin
ABX THAT COVER ANAEROBES
(including Bacteroides fragilis)
1. PCN + B-lactamase Inhibitor
(CAST)

2. 2nd gen ceph:
- fam, fa, fox, fur, te

3. Carbapenems

4. Chloramphenicol

5. Clinda
6. Metronidazole
7. Moxi Floxacin
8. Tigecycline
ABX THAT KILL HARD-TO-KILL GRAM+ BUGS

- MRSA
- VRE
MRSA
- Vanco
- Linezolid
- Daptomycin
- Quinupristin/dalfopristin
- Tigecycline

2. VRE:
- Linezolid
- Daptomycin
bacteriostatic vs bactericidal abx
ECSTaTiC abt bacteriostatics

1. Erythro
2. Clinda
3. Sulfamethoxazole
4. TMP
5. Tetracyclines
6. Chloramphenicol

BACTERICIDAL
"Very Finely Proficient At Cell Murder"

1. Vanco
2. Fluoroquinolones
3. Penicillin
4. Aminoglycosides
5. Cephalosporins
6. Metronidazole
SULFONAMIDES

(folic acid antagonists)

mech
- tox
PABA analogue
- competitive inhibition of dihydropteroate SYNTHETASE
- bound to albumin

*Bacteriostatic only
- affects INTRACELLULAR organisms too

TOXICITY:
- G6PD --> hemolysis
- Hypersensitivty
- Crystalluria (esp V-depleted)
- Pancytopenia
- Tubulointerstitial nephritis
- Photosensitive (Sulfas & Tetracyclines)
- KERNICTERUS in infants
- displace drugs from albumin (WARFARIN!!)
why don't sulfas or TMP hurt people?
humans don't have Dihydropteroate synthetase
- they can't make folic acid (TH4), they have to EAT IT

Folate --> PURINE SYNTHESIS
SULFA ABX

- types
- use
- distribution
Types: systemic, GI Tract only, Topical (silver - buns)

Use in UTIs (sulfur & urine both smell)

Use in CNS toxoplasma & nocardia
- good csf penetration

Use vs. intracellulars
- PCP, plasmodia, listeria, etc.

BROAD SPECTRUM
CLINCAL USES OF TMP/SMX

TMP Smx
1. respiratory Tree
- Strep pneumo & H. flu

2. Mouth: GI tract - gram-

3. Pee: GU tract
- UTI, prostatitis
(TMP concentrates in prostate)

4. Syndrome (AIDS)
- PCP prophylaxis
(and other protozoans like toxo)
TRIMETHOPRIM

- mech
- ADME
- toxicity
MECH: inhibits Dihydrofolate REDUCTASE
- prevents purine synthesis
(anti folate)

Bacteriostatic; used in combo w/ Sulfamethoxazole
(synergism)

CONCENTRATES IN PROSTATE

TMP = Treats Marrow Poorly
- megaloblastic anemia
- eukopenia
- granuloyctopenia
**Leucovorin rescue = folinic acid supp**

treats lots of stuff, inc outpt MRSA
- alternative to pCN in Listeria tx
DAPSONE

- mech
- uses
aka A sulfone

Tx's: Hansen's Disease/Leprosy
- Also PCP (allergy 2 TMP/SMX)
- Toxo

MECH: sulfa abx

ADME:
- hepatic & renal elim
DAPSONE

- toxicity
1. Hemolysis: Hb oxidant
- G6PD
- Methemoglobinemia
- Rash
- sulfone syndrome: like infectious mono
- erythema nodosum leprosum
Aztreonam, Vanco, Dapto

- what bugs do they kill?
- how?
- tox of dapto & vanco
Aztreonam: GRAM NEGATIVE ONLY
(b-lactam; transpeptidase)

VANCO & DAPTO: ALL GRAM+ ONLY
- vanco: blocks peptidoglycan SYNTHESIS (also bacitracin)
- Daptomycin: Eliminates charge on cell membrane
(cyclic lipopeptide)

**Dapto = myopathy w/ cpk ELEVATION

**Vanco = red man syndrome
- rapid infusion--> histamine release
**Vanco synergist w/ aminoglycosides
**Vanco NOT absorbed orally - use in C. dif colitis
ABX that inhibit DNA fxn or structure
1. Fluroquinolones - DNA gyrase
2. Rifampin - DNA-dept RNA pol
mRNA synthesis
3. Metronidazole - toxic free radicals
3. Nitrofurantoin
VANCOMYCIN

- mech
- use
- ADME
Binds @ peptidoglycan terminus (D-ala)
- inhibits cell wall cross linking by inhibiting peptidoglycan synthesis
- bactericidal
- time dept

USE:
- C. dif
- MRSA
- Gram+
- Enterococcus: only alt 2 PCN
*synergist w/ aminoglycosides

ADME:
- POOR oral absorption = c.dif
- Renal elim only
VANCO

- TOX
- RESISTANCE
RED MAN SYN: rapid infusion <1hr
- histamine
- hypotension

Pregnancy
- baby oto & nephrotoxicity

RESISTANCE:
- Target alteration: enterococcus can give vanA resistance gene 2 staph
- Target access: thickened cell wall
BACITRACIN

- use
- mech
inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis (and cell wall)
- bactericidal


**nephrotoxic
- used topically ONLY against GRAM+
daptomycin

- where DON'T u use it?
DON'T use it in pneumonia
- doesn't acheive adequate levels in the lung
FLUOROQUINOLONES

- mech
- ADME
- absorption factors
Inhibits DNA gyrase (topoisomerase)
- bactericidal

ADME:
- Great oral
- Don't take w/ Antacids, milk products, Al, Mg, Zn, Fe, Ca
- Wide dist; also bone, CSF
**[]s in prostate, lung, kidney
- AFFECTS INTRACELLULAR BUGS

Elim: stool & renal & liver
drugs that concentrate in the prostate
1. Quinolones (also bone, lung, kidney)
2. TMP
3. Tetracyclines

(P-QTT)
FLUOROQUINOLONES

- CATEGORIES
"-floxacin"
- flocks of sinners gyrating
- need to pee (UTI)
- vomit if too much

1. Std: Ciprofloxacin
2. Respiratory: Levo, Moxi
FLUOROQUINOLONES

- tox
1. Cns: elderly seizures, vertigo, etc
2. Cardiac: LONG QT
3. tENDONITIS/aCHILLES RUPTURE - athletes!
4. Arthropathy in babies
- fluoroquinoLONES hurt the attchs to your BONE

**resistance: chromosome encoded mtt in DNA gyrase
- also efflux pumps & porins
FLUOROQUINOLONES

USE


**poor gram+ coverage & NO anaerobe coverage**
- DOES kill staph aureus & anthrax
best for gram NEGATIVE bugs in UTI/GU infxns

1. UTIs,
2. Prostatis
3. Traveller's diarrhea (stool elimn)
4. Osteomyelitis (gets to bone)
5. CA pneumonia
- intracellular bugs
- use in Pseudomonas - Cipro
6. ANthrax proph
METRONIDAZOLE

- MECH

- USE
MECH:
Reductive process creates anion metabolites
- damages bacterial DNA
- requires lowredox potential
(NOT active in aerobic)

USE:
ANAEROBES UNDER THE BELT
(& MICROAEROPHILES)

GET GAP on the Metro
- intestinal parasites

1. Giardia
2. Entamoeba
3. Trichomonas
4. Gardnerella vaginalis (BV)
5. Anaerobes
6. H. Pylori (microaerophile)

*also "M-I-L" drug 4 C. dif colitis bc vanco is better

ADME:
- GOOD CSF penetration; even into abscesses
- FECAL, renal, hepatic elim
METRONIDAZOLE
- TOXICITY
1. DISULFIRAM LIKE RXN
(Antabuse)
- don't take w/ alcohol!
- flushing, cramps, shock, seizure

2. seizures; other CNS

3. Metallic taste
4. headache
*pregnancy category B
tYPES OF TUBERCULOSIS

- latent vs localized vs disseminated vs atypical
ALL PPD+

latent: +infxn; no disease

localized: focal in lungs; not disseminated

Disseminated: extrapulmonary
- M. tb esp meninges, bone, GU tract

Atypical: M. avium complex
- chronic pneumonia or disseminated
- esp in AIDS/HIV+
- Tx w/ -mycin (rifabutin or clarithromycin).
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF M. TUBERCULOSIS TX
1. NUMBERS
- few organisms (Latent): few drugs
- Many orgs (active infxn): many drugs

2. Prevent activation of disease
- prophylaxis

3. Prevent emergence of resistance
- TB is slow-growing, dormant, intracelular, mycolic acid (lipid) cell wall
***4 for 2, 2 for 4***
-DOT

* Give B6 w/ INH
* Make sure it's M. tb and not MAC
- acid fast bacilli are M. tb until proven otherwise
TB FIRST LINE DRUGS

INH-SPIRE
PERIS; I Saw a Red Pyre (burning the liver)

INH, PZA, RIF, ETB, = HEPATOTOXIC
Streptomycin

**second line drugs are used if resistance present; very bad SEs
TREATMENT OF MAC
first line: take CARE it's not MAC
- Clazithromycin or Azithromycin
- Rifabutin
- Ethambutol

2nd line: Quinolones, streptomycin, Clofazamine
ISONIAZID

- mech
- activity
- Tox
Prodrug ~ pyridoxine
- bacteria catalase-peroxidase needed to make active
- inhibits mycolic acid synthesis

MUST USE IN TB
- not good against MAC

TOX:
1. Hepatotoxic
2. Peripheral neuropathy: ^ renal excretion of B6
- give supp B6 always
3. Drug induced SLE
- ANA vasculitis

fast vs. slow acetylators based on genetics
tx of TB

- osteomyelitis TB
- latent TB
12 mo+ for sequestered sites
- cns or bone

9+ mo latent TB
RIFAMPIN & RIFAMYCINS (rifabutin)

- mech
- activity
- tox
- unique
4 R's of RIF
1. (DNA-dep) RNA POL inhibitor
2. Revs up P450 (inducer)
3. RED/orange body fluids
4. Rapid resistance if used alone
- delays resistance 2 dapsone in leprosy

*also used in Meningococcal prophylaxis & H.ib

**Rifabutin used in MAC (can be found in lymph nodes, where M. tb isn't) & it's a weaker inducer of P450 =)
FAMOUS P450 INDUCERS

must know
1. RIF
2. Ethanol (alcoholics)
3. Non-nucleoside ART
4. Anticonvulsants
- Phenytoin
- Carbamazepine
- Phenobarbital

**all are obviously metabolized by the liver**
PYRAZINAMIDE (PZA)
prodrug activated by acidic pH of phagolysosome (where m. tb is)
- probably inhibits mycolic acid synthesis

TOX:
- Hepatotoxic
- Hyperuricemia/gout
ETHAMBUTOL (ETM)

- mech
- activity
- toxic
Decreases carb polymerization of cell wall
- blocks arabinosyltransferase

BACTERIOSTATIC***
- only one in 1st line TB tx

Hits M. tb & M. kansasii like INH

ETHANE/BUTANE TORCHES EYE
- Central scotoma
- loss of color vision
- gout
HANSEN'S DISEASE/LEPROSY TX
1. RIF
- most active leprosy drug
- 4R's of RIF

2. DAPSONE: A sulfone
- sulfa: inhibits dihydropteroate synthase
- also in PCP
- TOX: G6PD: oxidant --> hemolysis

3. Clofazamine:
- red-black clown climbing DNA helix
- inhibits DNA replication
- accumulates in tissues
- can turn skin red-black
Classes of ANTIFUNGALS
1. Polyenes: punch holes in membrane
- Amphotericin B

2. Anti-metabolites:
- flucytosine

3. Azoles:
- Inhibit Lanosterol --> ergosterol

4. Glucan synthesis inhibitors
- echinocandins
(ex//caspofungin, micafungin)
inhibit 1,3 D-glucan synthase

5. Allylasmines: topical
- terbinafine
- inhibit squalene oxidase (inhibit ergosterol synthesis)

6. OTHERS:
- Griseofulvin: disrupts mitotic spindles