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Antimicrobial drugs work by 1.______________ or
2.______________ with
3. ____________ of microorganisms.
1. killing
2. interfering
3. growith
Antimicrobial drugs act within the host without
_____________ the host.
Damaging
_______ ___________ is term of when antimicrobial drugs act within the host w/o damaging the host.
Selective Toxicity
"Basis for chemotherapy" -selectively finding and destroying pathogens, but not the host. ______ _____
"Magic Bullet"
Inhibitory reactions between colonies on solid media and mechanism of inhibition.
Antibiosis
________ is substance produced by micro-organisms that in small amounts inhibits a microorganism.
Antibiotic
Name of species from which half of antibiotics are produced - commonly inhabits soil.
Streptomyces
Drugs that are effective agains Prokaryote cells and do not effect Eukaryote human cells are ________ to develop.
Easy
Virus infection are more difficult to treat because pathogen is ________ the host's cells.
Within
Virus direct human cells to make viruses due to __________ information.
genetic
Narrow spectrum of microbial activity affect gram ________ but ver few gram _________.
positive
negative
Broad spectrum antibiotics affect broad range of gram
___________ bacteria.
positive
Antimicrobial drugs that kill microbes directly are _________.
BacteriCIDAL
Antimicrobial drugs that prevent microbes from growing are ___________.
BacterioSTATIC
Host's own defenses (phagocytosis and antibody production) destroy microorganisms
BacterioSTASIS
List 4 mode of actions of antimicobials involving inhibition.
Cell Wall Synthesis
Protein Synthesis
Essential metabolites Synthesis
Nucleic Acid replication and transcription
List 1 mode of action of antimicrobials involving injury
Plasma membrane
4 main antibiotics that inhibit cell wall synthesis.
(PCVB)
Penicillin
Cephalosporins
Bacitracin
Vancomycin
4 main antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis.
(CEST)
Chloramphenicols
Erythromycin
Streptomycin
Tetracycline
2 main antibiotics that inhibit nucleic acid replication and transcription
(IN ART)
quinolones
rifampin
1 antibiotic causing injury to plasma membrane
polymyxin B
2 antibiotics used for inhibition of synthesis of essential metabolites
trimethoprim
sulfanilamides
Peptidoglycan is found only in ___________ cell walls.
Bacterial
(human cells do not have cell walls)
Cell wall synthesis is inhibited by ________________ of _____________ synthesis
inhibition
peptidoglycan
Cell Wall synthesis inhibition has low ____________ for host cells
Toxicity
Protein synthesis inhibition is based on differences in _________ structure.
(80S / 70S)
ribosome
Nucleic Acid Synthesis inhibition interferes with ______ replication and transcription
DNA
Plasma Membrane injury affects __________, not bacteria.
Fungus
___________ antibiotics change permeability of plasma membrane
Polypeptide
Anti-fungal durgs combine with _________ in plasma membrane.
Sterols
Synthesis of essential metabolites involves ________ inhibition
competitive
In synthesis of essential metabolites, competitive inhibition between _______ and ________ occurs.
PABA
Sulfanilamide
PABA is the substrate for enzyme reaction for _____ ____ synthesis
Folic acid
All penicillins have a common core structure of beta_____ _____.
lactam ring
Penicillins are differentiated by chemical ______ ______s which interfere with cell wall synthesis..
side chain
Pencillin prevents _____-_____ of ______________.
cross linking
peptidoglycans.
Penicillin is a _______ spectrum antibiotic
narrow
Two natural forms of penicillin are penicillin ___ and ____.
G, V
4 semi-synthetic penicillins are:
(COMA)
carbencillan
oxacillan
methicillan
ampicillan
Semi-synthetic penicillin is produced by _________ and removing and chemically adding ______ _______s.
mold
side chains
___________ is bacterial enzyme that cleave to beta-lactam ring
penicillinASE
Methicillan resistance to penicillin is known as_______
MRSA (methicillan resistant staphylococcus aureus)
PPNG is acronym for
Penicillinase-Producing Neisseria Gonorrhea
Cephalosporins resemble ____________ and are resistant to ____________.
penicillin
penicillinase
Bacitracin is used _______ against Gram _________ staphylococcus and streptococcus.
topically
positive
Bacitracin is derived from
__________ __________.
B. subtilis
Vancomycin is used for resistant _____ _______.
Staphylococcus aereus
Isoniazid is effective against _______ _________.
Myobacterium tuberculosis
Isoniazid inhibits synthesis of
__________ __________
mycolic acid
in carbapenems, beta-lactam antibiotic substitutes carbon atom for __________
sulfer
Carbapenems is a ______ spectrum antibiotic
broad
_________, a carbapenems, is active against 99% of all organisms isolated from hospital patients
(Primary care)
Primaxin
Monobactams differ from beta-lactam with _____ _____ ring.
one single
Aztreonam has low _____ and effects gram _____ bacteria (E. coli and Pseudomonads)
toxicity
negative
Bacitracin is effective against Gram __________.
positive
Bacitracin interferes with the linear strands of __________
peptidoglycans
Vancomycin is a ________ antibiotic
glycopeptide
Vancomycin is a __________ spectrum antibiotic
narrow
VRE is _______ - ________
_________ associated with gram ________ bacteria and hospitals.
Vancomycin resistant enterococci
positive