ANTIBIOTICS DRUGS (FINALS) Flashcards
Using the Gram stain Method, a bacteriologist established a classification system for bacteria.
Hans Christian Gram
Additionally referred to as prokaryotes, single-celled creatures without a proper nucleus and nuclear membrane
Bacteria
A Scottish medical researcher who gained fame for developing Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
a class of antibiotic medication with the most comprehensive antibacterial effects of any antibiotic.
Carbapenems
This is a therapy for bacteremia as well as for serious infections of the abdomen and urinary tract.
Aminoglycosides
a bacterial illness that primarily affects the lungs
Tuberculosis
This prevents bacterial development and is used to treat some bacterial diseases including bronchitis and pneumonia.
Azithlromycin
What side effects might antibacterial medications cause?
Allergy or hypersensitivity
Superinfection
Organ toxicity
It works well against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Broad Spectrum
This is because the desired effect may be significantly diminished when two drugs are taken together.
Antagonistic Effect
It mostly works against one kind of organism.
Narrow Spectrum
Medications for severe malaria:
Artesunate IV
Primaquine
Quinine
This is when signs and symptoms do not improve
Subtherapeutic
When one antibiotic boosts the potency of a second medication, it happens.
Potentiative Effect
It happens when medications drastically alter or eradicate the body’s natural bacterial flora.
Superinfection
