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Chapter 24
bacterias
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antibiotic | used to treat infections |
| 1st antibiotic | sulfa |
| aminoglycosides | strongest antibiotic agent used today |
| bactericidal | agent that kills bacteria |
| conjunctivitis | most common eye infection |
| viruses | organisms that cannot live outside their host |
| Gram pb | bacteria that are able to keep crystal violet stain when washed in alcohol |
| nosocomial infection | an infection acquired while hospitalized |
| Gram nb | bacteria that are unable to keep crystal violet stain when washed in alcohol;harder to kill |
| bacteriostatic | prevent growth of bacteria but do not kill the microbe |
| candida albicans | a common fungi species that resides inside the human body |
| antimicrobial | chemical agents produced by scientist to prevent growth or kill micro-organisms |
| Therapeutic levels | the reason for loading dose is to bring it up to its therapeutic levels as quickly as possible |
| helicobacter pylori | antibiotics used are tetracycline sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprin(septra) or metronidazole |
| 2 herpes | simplex,zoster |
| anti-viral | pentam,Azt(retrovir),viracept |
| protozoa | human perzsite |
| anti-fungi | diflucan,nizoral,monistat |
| antiviral or viruses | HIV,AIDS,FLU,COLDS,CHICKEN POX |
| nosocomind | infection that can be deadly |
| steps for invasion and spread of viron attachment | injection,synthesis,assembly,spread via lyse or budding |
| alexander fleming | physician who discovered penicillin by accident |