Antibiotic Drugs Flashcards
Single-celled organisms that lack a true nucleus and nuclear membrane
Prokaryotes
Drugs that inhibit bacterial growth or kill bacteria and other microorganisms
Antibacterial drugs
It is the minimum amount of antibacterial drug to halt the growth of microorganisms
Minimum Effective Concentration
It is a drug of choice for gram-positive cocci such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, and also a drug of choice for meningitis caused by gram-negative cocci
Penicillin
It has the broadest antibacterial actions of any antibiotics; often reserved for complicated body cavity and connective tissue infections
Carbapenems
It destroys bacteria by altering its DNA without affecting the human DNA; a drug of choice for the prevention of anthrax
Quinolones
These are drugs used to treat infections caused by Mycobacterium bacterial species
Antituberculosis medications / antimycobacterium
Type of tuberculosis that causes leprosy, wherein symptoms on the skin and neurological system are observed
M. leprae
An antifungal drug that binds to sterols in the cell membrane of the fungi
Polyenes
Resistance to more than one first-line anti-TB drug other than both Isoniazid and Rifampicin
Polydrug-resistant TB
An antifungal drug that disrupts cellular metabolic pathways of fungi
Anti-metabolite
Drugs that are used to kill Plasmodium organisms and work during the phases of the parasite’s growth inside the body
Anti-Malarial drugs
An antihelminthic drug that destroys the worm’s cytoplasm which immobilizes and kills the worm
Albendazole
Chemicals that kill or suppress viruses by destroying virions or inhibiting their ability to replicate
Antiviral drug
It is wherein the desired effect may be greatly reduced when two drugs are used together
Antagonistic effect
