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1
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What are chemotherapeutic agents?

A

drugs that act against disease

2
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What are antimicrobial drugs?

A

drugs that fight against infection

3
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What are antibiotics?

A

drugs that come from microorganisms that kill or inhibit the growth of other microbes

4
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How do penicillins, cephalosporins, vancomyocin, and penems kill microbes?

A

inhibits cell wall synthesis

5
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What common drugs inhibit ribosomes?

A

erythromyocin, clindamyosin, tetracycline, aminoglycosides, chloramephinol

6
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What do rifampin, sulfa drugs, quiolones, and nucloside analogs all have in common?

A

they all inhibit nucleic acid synthesis

7
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What drugs inhibit metabolic pathways?

A

sulfa drugs, trimethoprim, amantadine

8
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What drugs alter membrane permeability?

A

nystatin, amphoteracin B, polymyxins

9
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How do the drugs inhibit cell wall synthesis?

A

Will not allow crosslinkage of NAM units

10
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What do all drugs that inhibit cell wall synthesis contain in their chemical structure?

A

Beta-lactams

11
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What is unique about bacitracin?

A

topical use only!

12
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Why is it not good to use too much drugs that have to do with protein synthesis?

A

Most prokaryotic ribosomes that are targeted are 70s, but eukaryotic mitochondrial ribosomes are also 70s

13
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How do cell membrane drugs affect the microbe?

A

Cell membrane drugs can easily enter into the cell membrane and compromise its integrity and also change what goes in and out of the cell

14
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What is special about amphoteracin B?

A

it creates pores in the cell membrane

15
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What is an ideal antimicrobial agent?

A

readily avaliable, inexpensive, chemically stable, easily administered, nontoxic and non allergic, selective

16
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What does the diffusion suceptibility test for?

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It test if the antimicrobial agent works on inhibiting or killing a certain organism

17
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What does a minimum inhibitory concentration test for?

A

What the minimum concentration of the antimicrobial is needed to inhibit or kill off an organism

18
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What are the three main categories of side effects?

A

Toxcicity
Allergies
Disruption of normal microbiota

19
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How does bacteria create resistance to some drugs?

A

New mutations of the gene

Aquisition of R plasmid through transduction, transformation, or conjugation