Antibiotic type and infectious treatment Flashcards
1
Q
What infections are penicillins used to treat?
A
Ear, throat, and urinary infection.
2
Q
What infections are cephalosporins used to treat?
A
- Skin
- Ear
- Throat
Urinary tract.
3
Q
What infection type do later cephalosporin generations treat that 1st gen cephalosporins do not treat?
A
Meningitis.
4
Q
What infections are monobactams used to treat?
A
- Lower respiratory
- Urinary tract
- Abdominal
- Gynecologic.
5
Q
What infections are carbapenems used to treat?
A
Serious infections like sepsis.
6
Q
What infections is vancomycin used to treat?
A
- MRSA
- C. diff
- gram positive infections.
7
Q
What infections do tetracyclines treat?
A
- Chlamydia
- Syphillis
- Mycoplasma
- Ttyphus
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Cholera
- Anthrax
- Acne vulgaris.
8
Q
What infections do macrolides treat?
A
- Legionnaires’ disease
- Whooping cough
- Acute diptheria
- Chlamydia
- Pneumonia
- Eye infections in neonates
9
Q
What infections do aminiglycosides treat?
A
- E. coli
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Skin
- Eye
10
Q
What infections do fluoroquinolones treat?
A
- Severe UTI
- Anxthrax
11
Q
What infections do Sulfonamides treat?
A
- UTI
- Pneumocystis pneumonia
- Shihella enteritis
- Acute bronchitis
- Acute Otitis media in children
12
Q
What infections does nitrofurontoin treat?
A
UTI
