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| use of chemicals to treat various aspects of diesease |
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| Drug, any chemical used in medicinal practice. one kind of anti microbial agent used to treat disease caused by microbes |
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| chemical substance produced by micro-organism that can inhibit the growth or destroy organisms |
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| agents synthesized in a lab |
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| antimicrobial agent made partly by laboratory synthesis and micro organism |
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| ability of an antimicrobial agent to harm microbes without causing significant damage to the host |
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| amount of drug necessary to cause host damage |
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| level of drug dosage that successfuly eliminates pathogenic organims if maintained over a period of time |
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| range of microbes against which the agent will work |
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| wide range includes more than one kind of organism |
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| small # of species single taxon group |
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inhibition of cell wall synthesis
disruption of cell membrane function
inhibition of protein synthesis
inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis
action as antimetabolites |
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| an invasion of replacement micro flora after an antibiotic |
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| ability of a micro organism to remain unharmed by a antimicrobial agent |
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| micro organism stay in tissues that the anti-biotics cannot reach |
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| drug resistance of microorganism due to mutation in chromosomal DNA |
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| extrachromosomal resistance |
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| drug resistance of microorganism due to the prescence of resistance R plasmids |
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