Antimicrobial Drugs

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1. What is an antibiotic?

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Antimicrobial drugs produced by microorganisms

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1. What is a synthetic drug?

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Antimicrobial drugs synthesized in the lab.

-Antibacterial synthetic drugs
-Antifungal synthetic drugs
-Antiviral agents

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1. List the five major ways by which an antibiotic or antimicrobial synthetic drug work?

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a. inhibition of cell wall synthesis
b. inhibition of protein synthesis
c. injury to plasma membrane
d. inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis
e. inhibition of synthesis of essential metabolites

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1. What is selective toxicity? What group of antibiotics have the best selective toxicity? Why?

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1. Are the sulfa drugs selectively toxic? Why or why not?

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Front 6

1. Know the action of each of the following: chloramphenical, streptomycin, erythromycin, tetracyclines.

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Front 7

1. List three drugs that stop the replication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Front 8

1. Why are there so many penicillins on the market today?

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Front 9

1. What does the 'R' group of penicillin do? How does it affect the activity of the penicillin?

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Front 10

1. Why is it so hard to find antiviral drugs? Antifungal drugs?

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Front 11

1. Why are the polyene antibiotics antifungal and not antibacterial?

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Front 12

1. How does AZT work?

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Front 13

1. List four ways bacteria become resistant to antibiotics.

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Front 14

1. Why can bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and not chemical disinfectants?

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Front 15

1. Do antibiotics do anything to viruses? Why or why not?

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1. What does 'broad spectrum' mean? 'Narrow spectrum'?

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