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