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Selective Toxicity |
Selectively find and destroy pathogens without doing damage to the host. Is the idea for modern day chemotherapy. |
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Chemotherapy |
The use of chemicals to treat disease |
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Antibiotic |
A substance produced by a microbe that, in small amounts, inhibits another microbe. |
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Antimicrobial Drugs |
Synthetic substances that interfere with the growth of microbes. |
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History of Chemotherapy |
Started when Fleming discovered penicillin from Penicillium. Today antibiotic resistance renders many effective medicines useless. |
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Narrow Spectrum of Microbial activity |
Drugs that affect a small range of microbial types. Is more specific. |
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Broad-spectrum antibiotics |
Drugs that affect a broad range of gram-positive or gram-negative bacteria. It can also kill many normal microbiota. |
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Superinfection |
Overgrowth of normal microbiota that is resistant to antibiotics. |
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Bactericidal |
kills microbes |
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Bacteriostatic
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prevents microbes from growing
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antibacterial drug inhibitor of cell wall synthesis |
*penicillin G *penicillin V *oxacillin *ampicillin *amoxicillin *bacitracin *vancomicin *isoniasid |
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antibacterial drug inhibitor of protein synthesis |
*chloramphenicol *streptomycin *tetracycline |
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antibacterial drug injured the plasma membrane |
Polymyxin B |
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antibacterial drug inhibitor of nucleic acid synthesis |
*rifampin *nalidixic |
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antifungal drug |
*amphotericin B *griseofulvin |
