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What do bacteriostatic antibiotics do?   Do not kill, only inhibit growth  
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What do bactericidal antibiotics do?   Kill the bacteria  
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What are broad spectrum antibiotics?   Low specificity and affect a large range of bacteria  
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What are narrow spectrum antibiotics?   High specificity, only affect a small range of bacteria  
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What do penicillin and cephalosporins contain?   Beta lactam ring  
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What do penicillins and cephalosporins do?   Inhibit an enzyme responsible for cell wall synthesis  
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What aminoglycisides do?   Prevents methionine from binding to tRNA  
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What do tetracyclines do?   Prevents tRNA from binding to an amino acid  
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What does chloramphenicol do?   Prevents peptide bond formation in protein synthesis  
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What does rifamycin do?   Inhibits RNA polymerase  
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What do sulphonamides and trimethoprim?   Inhibits the enzyme which is the precursor for folic acid  
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what do quinolones do?   Inhibit DNA girase, DNA does not coil  
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What anibiotics affect cell wall synthesis?   Penicillin and cephalosporins  
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What antibiotics affect nucleic acid synthesis?   Rifamycin, sulphonamides and trimethoprim, and quinolone  
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What antibiotics affect protein synthesis?   Aminoglycisides, Chloramphenicol and tetracycline  
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