Antibiotics Flashcards
HIV + active TB co-infection
Rifabutin replaces rifampin in RIPE therapy due to less P450 enzyme induction → less drug interactions
HIV + latent TB co-infection
Isoniazid (to avoid rifampin drug interactions)
Moderate to severe Erythema Nodosum Leprosum (Mycobacterium leprae)
Thalidomide (non-childbearing potential)
Mycobacterium avium complex
Clarithromycin/azithromycin
Ethambutol
A 3rd oral drug: Rifampin, Rifabutin, Ciprofloxacin
Malaria empirical/preventative in pregnant women
Pyrimethamine + sulfadoxine
Complicated, chloroquine resistant malaria in pregnant women, children
Quinidine gluconate + clindamycin
Radical cure of p vivax + p ovale, Terminal prophylaxis
Primaquine
Most systemic fungal infections
Amphotericin B
Cryptococcus infections
Amphotericin B + Flucytosine (synergistic)
Aspergillus
Voriconazole + Amphotericin B
Refractory aspergillus
Caspofungin/echinocandins
Fungal meningitis
Fluconazole
Onychomycosis
Griseofulvin
Symptomatic, invasive Entamoeba histolytica
Metronidazole (+luminal amebicide) (2nd tinidazole)
Asymptomatic Entamoeba histolytica
Luminal amebicides:
Iodoquinol
Paromomycin
Tetracycline & Erythromycin