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| The use of drugs to treat a disease |
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| InterferesInterferes with the growth of microbes with in a host |
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| A substance produced by a microbe that in small amounts inhibits another Microbe |
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| Killing harmful microbes without harming the host |
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| Mycobacteria is treated with |
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| What is a very broad spectrum antibiotic |
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| Most often used to treat malaria |
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| Common drug used to treat helminths |
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| Broad spectrum antibiotics |
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| A group of antibiotics that cam kill a broad range of bacterial types |
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| Antibiotics that only kill a selective species |
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| An overgrowth of noreal pathogen after a course of antibiotic therapy. Growth of a target pathogen that has developed resistance to said antibiotic. |
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| Example of a superinfection |
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| Kills a microbes directly by inhibition |
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| Prevents microbes from growing |
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| Inhibition of cell wall synthesis |
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| Blocking the replication of needed cell wall subunits for the microbes to divide |
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| Inhibition of protein synthesis |
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| Inhibits translation of mRNA into functional proteins |
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| Injuries the plasma membrane |
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| These drugs include polymyxin B |
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| Inhibition of the synthesis of essential metabolites |
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| Inhibits the production of needed metabolites like those found in combination drugs such as bacterium |
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| Why is PCN useful in treating gram positive bacteria |
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| Because it inhibits techoic acid |
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| PCN derivative drugs were the nucleus is naturally aquired from the mold but then in a lab the side chains are added syntheticly |
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| Example of a semisynthetic PCN |
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MRSA
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus |
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| An extremely pathogenic strain of bacteria to humans that is aquired where large numbers of people congregate and it's moist |
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| A small group of molecules that are derivatives oF PCN but also are effective against some gram negative species |
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| What enzyme is crucial in microbes being able to neutralize the effects of PCN |
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| What drugs inhibit cell wall synthesis |
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Narrow spectrum
Acts against gram postive bacteria |
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| First generation cephalosporins |
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