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The ways to pass resistance from one bacteria to another
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Transduction, transformation, conjugation
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Via : Plasmid DNA in phage
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Transduction
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Via: naked DNA
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Transformation
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Via: direct contact
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Conjugation
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Absence of target, alterations in target, insufficient concentrations of drug at target, lack of metabolic activation, drug inactivation, escape from drug effects
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Mechanisms of drug resistance
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Very common mechanism of drug resistance
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Drug inactivation
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Class of drug that has the mechanism of drug resistance of : escape from drug effects
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Sulfonamides
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Cell wall is also called:
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Peptidoglycan
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Gram _____ have another membrane to prevent PCN entrance
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Negative (outer membrane)
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The very young or very old have an _______ or _____ ability to AMDE drugs
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Under developed or compromised
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Koch's first postulate: the microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms ______ , but not in healthy organisms
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Suffering from the disease
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Koch's second postulate: the microorganism must be isolated from a _____ and grown in pure culture
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Diseased organism
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Koch's third postulate: the cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a _____
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Healthy organism
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Koch's fourth postulate: the microorganism must be _____ from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent
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Reisolated
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However, Koch abandoned the second part of the first postulate altogether when he discovered asymptomatic carriers of _____ and later _____
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Cholera; typhoid fever
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Asymptomatic carriers are now known to be a common feature of many infectious diseases, especially viruses such as:
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Polio, herpes simplex, HIV
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We are a _____, more bacterial cells in the body than mammalian cells
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Microbiome
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An agent applied to inanimate objects to destroy microorganisms--used in instrument sterilization for surgical procedures
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Disinfectant
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A preparation applied to living tissue to kill or prevent the growth of microorganisms. Used for all invasive procedures, simple injection, and major surgery
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Antiseptic
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Coagulation of proteins, destruction of normal membrane permeability, poisoning of enzyme systems
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Primary mechanisms of action of local anti infective agents
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: _____ and _____ lethal action (bacteriocidal rather than bacteriostatic)
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Rapid; sustained
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: ________ including spores, fungi, protozoa, and viruses
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Broad antimicrobial spectrum
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: high _____
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Potency
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: _______ in the presence of body fluids
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Retention of activity
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: high _____ (antiseptics)
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TI
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Desirable properties of a local anti-infective: _____ to instruments (disinfectants)
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Non-corrosive
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The first effective systemic chemotherapeutic agents
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Sulfonamides
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Sulfonamide structure:
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Sulfur attached to benzene ring; para NH2 (amino) group
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The _____ of the sulfa drugs can not be modified or the drug won't work
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Basic building block
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Sulfas are:
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Broad spectrum
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Affective against both gm + and gm - bacteria
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Broad spectrum
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