Antibiotics Drugs Flashcards
It is also known as prokaryotes which are single-celled that lack a true nucleus and nuclear membrane.
Bacteria
It occurs when the antibiotics reduce or completely eliminate the normal bacterial flora.
Superinfection
It is effective against gram-positive and gram-negative organisms.
Broad Spectrum
It is primarily effective against one type of organism (selective).
Narrow Spectrum
He devised a method to classify bacteria using the Gram-stain method.
Hans Christian Gram
What do you call this drugs that penetrate the bacterial cell wall and have an affinity for the bacteria’s binding sites?
Antibacterial Drugs
What Antibiotic combinations that occurs when one antibiotic increased the effectiveness of the 2nd drug?
Potentiative Effect
What antibiotic combinations that is equal to the sum of the effects of two antibiotics?
Additive Effect
State the three antibiotic combinations effect.
Additive Effect
Potentiative Effect
Antagonistic Effect
What antibiotic combinations when two drugs are used together, the desired effect may be greatly reduced?
Antagonistic Effect
It is characterized by granulomas in the lungs from accumulation of inflammatory cells with a cheesy caseated consistency.
Tuberculosis
What are the three types of tuberculosis?
M. Tuberculosis
M. leprae
M. avium-intracellulare
What do you call a procedure that is recommended to some patients with a history of allergic reactions such as itching, hives, rash, swelling, or shortness of breath?
Penicilin Allergy Skin Testing
A drugs that is used to treat infections caused by Mycobacterium bacterial species?
ANTIMYCOBACTERIUM
It inhibit dihydrofolate reductase, enzyme needed for production of vital substances.
Pyrimethamine
what do you called this process that binds and alters parasitic DNA?
Primaquine
It is a type of drugs that increases permeability of the cell membrane of the worm which causes dislodgement on the site of residence which they are then killed by the host.
Praziquantel
What do you call this drugs that is is responsible to potentiates CNS of the nematode leading to paralysis?
Ivermectin
What do you called this drugs that is responsible for blocking ACh which results to paralysis of the worm?
Pyrantel
It destroys worm’s cytoplasm which immobilizes and kills the worm.
Albendazole
