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| Destroying all forms of microbial life |
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| The absence of pathogens on an object or area |
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| The reduction of microbial pop. to safe pulic health levels |
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| The chemical disinfection of living tissue such as skin or mucus membrane |
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| The removal of transiet microbes from skin by mechanical cleansing or by an antiseptic |
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| Heat sufficient only to kill endospores of the botulism bacterium |
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| Any treatment used on inantimate objects to inhibit/kill microbes |
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| The lowest temperature require to kill a liquid culture of a certain species of bacteria in 10 min at PH7 |
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| The minimal length of time required to kill all bacteria(in a liquid culture)at a given temp |
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| Mild heating to destroy particular spoilage organisms or disease organisms in milk or similar products |
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| A test for the effectiveness of a chemical disinfectant |
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| The absence of water resulting in a condition of dryness |
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| Intermittent sterilization |
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| Activity based on damage to the sterols in plasma membrane of fungal cells |
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| Inhibition of protein synthesis |
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| Chloramphenicol & Aminoglycosides |
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| A drug that is useful against symptoms of genital herpes |
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| Used in the treatment of malaria |
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| A synthetic antibacterial that blocks the synthesis of nucleic acids-used in combination with sulfonamides |
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| A penicillin type drug designed to be resistant to penicillinase |
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| Drug of choice for treatment of typhoid fever; may cause bone marrow depression & aplastic anemia |
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| An aminglycoside antibiotic used in tuberculosis treatment; may cause deafness or kidney damage |
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| Treatment of obligate anaerobes & protozoa |
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| Used with other viral drugs to treat AIDS |
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| A relatively toxic antibiotic used mainly against life-threatening staphylococcal infectons resistant to penicillin |
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| Synthetic drug serves as the "last line of defense" against MRSA infectons |
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| Cell walls of most bacteria contain________, the target of activity by penicillins |
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| The treatment of disease w chemicals taken into the body by injecton or ingestion is called____________? |
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| Many bacteria develop resistance to penicillin by producing the enzyme _______? |
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| The usual principal of antibiotic activity is________, meaning it kills the organism w/out damaging the host |
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| The term penicilin is applied to a group of antibiotics that all have a __________in their structure |
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| The aminocyclitol ring and amino sugars are found in the_______group of antibiotics |
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| The lowest conc. of chemotherapeutic agent that will prevent growth is the______? |
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| Many antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis by reacting with the_______of bacterium which differ greatly between the procaryotic and eucaryotic cells |
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| When antibiotics eliminate much of the natural microbiota, leading to an overgrowth of resistant pathogens, the result is a_________ |
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| Bacitracin & polymyxin are classified as the______antibiotics since they are obtained from species of this bacterial genus |
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| __________drugs act to paralyze the muscles or destroy the scolex(hooked-head) of these "macroscopic microbes" |
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| Harmless and beneficial microbes living in/on the human body are called___________ |
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| During oralantibiotic therapy, a life threatening condition termed________may result due to overgrowth of CDIF in the intestine |
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| Antibiotic assoc. colitis |
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| GI upset, stains teeth, preg woman liver damage |
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| Aminoglycosides can cause |
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| Auditory, nerve and kidney damage |
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