Preventing and treating disease Flashcards
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What is an epidemic
It is when a communicable disease spreads at a national level
What is a pandemic?
It is when a communicable disease spreads at an international level
What is Herd / Mass Vaccination?
It is vaccinating a large
proportion of the population to reduce spread
What is local vaccination?
It is Vaccinating only the most at risk people. These could be people most likely to spread the disease (e.g. people who travel) or people most effected by the disease (e.g. pregnant women)
What is the source for Penicillin?
Commercial extraction originally from mold growing
What is the source for Docetaxel?
Derived originally from yew trees
What is the source for Prialt?
Derived from the venom of a cone snail from the oceans around Australia
What is the source for aspirin?
Based on a compound from swallow bark
What is the source for Digoxin?
based on digitoxin, originally extracted from foxglove?
What are antibiotics?
Antibiotics are a group of drugs used to treat bacterial infections.
They are effective against prokaryotic cells but they generally leave eukaryotic cells unharmed.
What is a bactericidal?
type of antibiotics that kills bacterial cells
What is a bacteriostatic?
It is an antibiotic that slows the growth
or reproduction of bacteria.
