MIDTERM 02 - Antibacterials Flashcards
Was the the first to use microscope (Year - 1670)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Stated that microorganisms are responsible for diseases (Year - 1800)
Louis Pasteur
Proposed the germ theory of disease and discovered phenol/carbolic acid (Year - 1800)
Joseph Lister
Proposed Koch’s postulates (Year - 1800)
Robert Koch
Refers to a a set of criteria/postulates used to identify the microorganism that causes a disease
Koch’s postulates
The microorganism must be present in every case of disease but absent from healthy microorganism (Koch’s postulates)
Postulate 1
The suspected microorganism must be isolated and grown in pure culture (Koch’s postulates)
Postulate 2
The same disease must result when the isolated microorganism is inoculated in a healthy host (Koch’s postulates)
Postulate 3
The same microorganism must be isolated again from the diseased host (Koch’s postulates)
Postulate 4
The father of chemotherapy; chemotherapeutic index → therapeutic index (Year - 1904)
Paul Ehrlich
A drug created by Paul Ehrlich that is used to treat syphilis (Year - 1910)
Salvarsan (Arsphenamine; Compound 606)
An antibiotic discovered by Alexander Fleming (Year - 1928)
Penicillin
An antibacterial agent used for gram-positive bacteria (Year - 1934)
Proflavine
It was the first sulfonamide antibiotic (Year - 1935)
Prontosil
Was the first aminoglycoside antibiotic discovered (Year - 1944)
Streptomycin
A diverse class of anti-infective antibiotics containing polypeptide chains (Year - 1945)
Peptide antibiotics
An antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces venezuelae (Year - 1947)
Chloramphenicol
A large family of antibiotics isolated from actinomyces soil bacteria (Year - 1948)
Tetracycline
Antibiotics made of amino acids linked in a cyclic structure (Year - 1952)
Cyclic peptide antibiotics
A beta-lactam antibiotic that is a precursor molecule for antibiotics used in humans (Year - 1955)
Cephalosporin C
A drug used to treat tuberculosis; a hydrazide of isonicotinic acid (Year - 1952)
Isoniazid
An antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections (UTI) (Year - 1962)
Nalidixic acid
A fluoroquinolone antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections (Year - 1987)
Ciprofloxacin
Was responsible for the serendipitous discovery of penicillin
Alexander Fleming