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any chemical used in the treatment, relief, or prophylaxis of a disease chemotherapeutic drug
prophylaxis use of a drug to prevent imminent infection of a person at risk
the use of chemotherapeutic drugs antimicrobial chemotherapy
antimicrobials all-inclusive term for any antimicrobial drug, regardless of its origin
substances produced by the natural metabolic processes of some microorganisms that can inhibit or destroy other microoganisms antibiotics
semisynthetic drugs drugs taht are chemically modified in the lab after being isolated from natural sources
synthetic drugs the use of chemical reactions o synthesize antimicrobial compounds in the lab
antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types-for example, a drug effective mainlyon gram-positive bacteria narrow spectrum (limited spectrum)
broad spectrum (extended spectrum) antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial types-for example , a drug effective against both gam-positive and gram-negative bacteria
Drugs effective on gram-positive cocci (staphylococcus aur. & streptococcus pyogenes) penicillins, vancomycin, cephalosporin, erythromycin
name a gram positive rod bacteria and an effective drug bacillus, ciprofloxacin or doxycycline
What bacteria causes lyme disease? borrelia
Which drugs are effective against chlamydia? azithromycin, doxycycline
The bacteria treponema pallidum can cause what infection? syphilis
_____________ are effective chemical agents at both microbicidal and microbistatic levels. ex. chlorine, iodine halogens
strong microbicidal agents used in general disinfection phenols
____________dissolve membrane lipids and destroy cell proteins alcohols
What is the orgin of strep throat or rheumatic fever? Which drugs treat this type of infection? streptococcus pyogenes; penicillin cephalosporin, erythromycin
Which drug is effective against E. coli? cephalosporin
cephalosporin treats which infections? diarrhea, sepsis, urinary tract infection ; due to E. coli; and strep, rheumatic fever-due to steptococcus pyogenes
Ciprofloxacin treats which infectious agents? Bacillus & neisseria gonorrhoeae
Drugs that interfere with the cell wall cycloserine,Vancomycin, penicillins, and cephalosporin CCC Van Pee (cell wall, cylcoserine, cephalosporin, vancomycin, penicillin)
Nucleic acid synthesis drugs quinolones, ciprofloxacin, rifampin, chloroquine, AZT
protein synthesis drugs chloramphenicol, erythromycin, clindamycin, oxalolidinones, aminoglycosides, tetracyclinges, streptomycin, amikacin
Cell membrane synthesis drugs Polymixins, amphotericin, Nystatin
folic acid drugs sufonamides, trimethoprim
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