Antibiotic Drugs Flashcards
These substances or drugs will delay bacterial growth or kill bacteria.
Antibacterial drugs
It is a bacteriostatic that can only be used on non-living tissues with higher potency.
Disinfectants
It’s a procedure wherein sputum culture is done to get the minimum amount of antibacterial drugs needed to halt the growth of microorganisms.
MEC or Minimum Effective Concentration
If the prescribed drug to a patient with limited drug of choice is an antibiotic drug with broad spectrum which increases the risk of having what?
Superinfection
It is said to be equal to the sum of the effects of two drug combinations.
Additive Effect
It is one of the novel drugs which was first mass-produced and also used to end the White Plague or the plague caused by Tuberculosis.
Penicillin
Over the years the microorganisms evolved to produce this type of enzyme that can destroy the beta-lactam rings in the drugs.
Beta Lactamase
Piperacillin-tazobactam is a beta lactam drug which has an additional property called____ that will make the drug more powerful against microorganisms.
Beta-lactamase Inhibitor
These are drugs that can have a possible cross sensitivity to penicillin.
Cephalosporins
Antibiotic drugs should be administered______because otherwise it will be painful for the patient.
administered slowly
Tetracycline decreases the effectiveness of_________ that increases the possibility of getting pregnant.
Contraceptives
It is an antibiotic medication that can’t be taken along with milk, antacids, and iron salts because it reduces the drug absorption
Tetracyclines
It is an antibiotic medication with high nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity which means it must be in a maintained therapeutic drug monitoring and as much as possible it mustn’t be administered to patients with kidney and vestibulocochlear diseases.
Aminoglycosides
It is used for microorganisms with unknown resistance to a drug, it is done to test for the sensitivity of the microorganisms to various antibiotics.
Sensitivity
Aminoglycoside drugs must not be used concurrently with loop diuretics and other antibiotics because it may increase risks of ototoxicity and reduce vitamin K absorption in the gut resulting in?
Bleeding
