Antibiotics 3 Flashcards
What are some antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis?
Aminoglycosides Tetracyclins Macrolides Oxazolidinones Streptogramins
What are some aminoglycosides?
Streptomycin
Gentamicin
Amikacin
What are aminoglycosides used for?
Serious infections with aerobic gram negative rods
How do aminoglycosides work?
Binds to the 30S ribsoome subunit causing misreading of mRNA, inferance of initiation complex, break up polysomes
What are some clinical uses of aminoglycosides?
Infections from enterobacteriaceae, and pseudomonas
Used with other drugs to certain Staph and Strep strains
With vancomycin/penicillin for endocarditis
What is streptomycin used for?
TB, plague, tularemia, brucellosis, Mycoplasma avium
What the toxicities of aminoglycosides?
Ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity
What are some Macrolides and Ketolides?
Erythomycin
Clarithromycin
Azithromycin
Telithromycin
What are Macrolides and Ketolides effective against?
Some gram positives and negatives and atypicals
How do Macrolides work?
Bind at 23S of 50S ribosome and prevent polypeptide elongation
What is the problem with erythromycin?
GI upset
Which Macrolides are derived from erythromycin?
Clarithromycin and Azithromycin
What are some clinical uses for Macrolides?
Empiric therapy for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Used for Legionella, Mycoplasma and Chlamydia infections
What are some clinical uses for telithromycin?
Used for mild CAP
Active against Strep. pneumo espeically penicillin and Macrolide resistant
What are some toxicities of Macrolides and Ketolides?
Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, inhibition of cytochrome P450, visual disturbances
What are some resistance factors to macrolides?
Efflux pump and enzyme mediated methylation on 23S binding site