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different kind of antibiotics?

beta-lactams (block cell wall synthesis)


Methicillin (binds to BPBs)


Vancomycin (ala-D-ala to ala-D-lac)


Erythromycon, chloramphenicol (inh 50S)


Tetracycline, Kanamycin (inh 30S)


Sulfonamides, Trimethoprim (folic acid)


Fluropquinolones (supercoil)


Rifampicin (inh RNA polymerase)


Polymyxin B (lind LPS in Gram Negative Ba)



Bacterial strategies for antibiotic resistance

Preventing of antibiotic entry


antobiotic modification (beta-lactamase)


Efflux of antibiotic (pump out antibiotic)


Alteration of antibiotic target (PBPs, ribosome modifications)


Bypassing the antibiotic action (use environmental folic acid)

Bacterial transformation

Release for DNA

Bacterial transduction

phage

Bacterial conjugation

conjugere and transform

•Enterococcusfaecium (VRE)

Gram positive


intestinal tract in mammals


resistance due to the van genes

•Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

gram negative

virulence factors as pili, LPS and biofilm formation


•Klebsiella species

Gram negative

produce a capsule and is commonly resistant to multiple antibiotics




•Acinetobacter baumannii

d

•Pseudomonas aeruginosa

d

•Enterobacterand E. coli

d

Clostridia

Gram positive


rod shape


endospore-formers


strict anaerobes, killed by O2


can cause life threatening diesease mediated by exotoxins


cause the disease pseudemembranous colitis - inflammatory condition of the large intestine, smalling diarrhea