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Chemotherapeutic drug |
Used in treatment, relief, or prophylaxis of a disease |
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Prophylaxis |
To prevent imminent infection of a person at risk |
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Antimicrobial chemo |
Chemo drugs to control infection |
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Antibiotics |
Produced by natural metabolic processes of some organisms that can inhibit or destroy |
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Semisynthetic drugs |
Chemically modified after being isolated |
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Synthetic drugs |
Produced by chemical reactions |
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Narrow spectrum |
Effective against limited array of microbial types |
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Broad spectrum |
Antimicrobials effective against a wide variety |
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What 3 factors must be know before antimicrobial therapy |
The nature of microorganism, the degree or sensitivity, overall medical condition of pt |
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Organisms that show resistance require testing |
Staphlococcus, N. Gonorrhoeae, strep. Pneumoniae, entercoccus faecalis |
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Testing for what is difficult or unnecessary |
Fungal or protozoal |
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Kirby bauer technique for drug susceptibility |
Zone of inhibition measured and compared with drug standard when placing antibiotics on a agar plate full of bacteria |
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Tube dilution tests |
Measuring growth with antibacterial in a tube |
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Goal od antimicrobial drugs |
Distrupt cell processes, inhibit virus, interfere with enzymes, destroy structures, selectively toxic to kill or inhibt only the microorganism |
