Antifungal Drugs

Question 1

What are the categories of fungal infections?

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Question 2

What are the 3 most common fungal infections?

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Question 3

How are fungi different from bacteria?

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Question 4

Why has there been an increase in fungal infections?

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Question 5

How can antifungal drugs be classified MOA?

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Question 6

Discuss the systemic drugs for subcutaneous and systemic mycoses

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Question 7

What type of chemical is amphotercin B?

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Polyene antibiotic

Question 8

What’s the MOA of Amphotercin?

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Question 9

Discuss the antifungals activity of amphotercin B

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Question 10

Discuss the PK of amphotercin B

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Question 11

What are the uses of amphotercin B?

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Question 12

What’s the infusion related toxicity of amphotercin B?

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Question 13

How does amphotercin B leading to renal toxicity?

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Question 14

How does renal toxicity present in amphotercin B?

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Question 15

How is the liver, kidney and blood Affected by amphotercin B?

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Question 16

Discuss the propensity of amphotercin B to induce seizures

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Question 17

Why have lipid formulations of amphotercin B been produced?

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Question 18

What are the lipid formulations of amphotercin B?

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Question 19

What is flucytosine?

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Question 20

Discuss the MOA of flucytosine

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Question 21

How can flucytosine be synergistic?

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Question 22

Discuss the spectrum of flu cytosine

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Question 23

What are the uses of flucytosine?

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Question 24

Discuss the adverse effects of flucytosine

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Question 25

What are azoles?

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Question 26

What are the MOA of azoles?

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Question 27

What are the adverse effects of azoles?

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Question 28

What is ketoconazole?

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Question 29

What does ketoconazole inhibit?

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Question 30

What are the uses of ketoconazole?

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Question 31

What is a fluconazole?

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Question 32

What are the uses of fluconazole?

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Question 33

What is Itraconazole?

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Question 34

What are the uses of itraconazole?

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Question 35

What is voriconazole?

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Question 36

What metabolizes and inhibits voriconazole?

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Question 37

What is posaconazole?

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Question 38

What is caspofungin?

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Question 39

Discuss the MOA caspofungin

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Question 40

Discuss the drug categories of superficial mycoses

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Systemic and topical

Question 41

What are the systemic drugs for superficial mycoses?

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Question 42

What’s Grisefulvin and it’s MOA?

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Question 43

What are the uses of Grisefulvin?

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Question 44

What is terabinafine?

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Question 45

What’s the MOA of terbinafine?

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Question 46

What are the uses of terbnafine?

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Question 47

What are the adverse effects of terbanifine?

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Question 48

What are the azoles used for?

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Question 49

What are the total drugs for superficial mycoses?

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Question 50

What is nystatin?

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Question 51

Describe the toxicity of nystatin

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Question 52

What is the main thing amphotercin b used for?

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Question 53

What are the topical azoles

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Question 54

How 8s terbinafine available?

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Question 55

What’s cause of pneumocystis jirovecii?

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Question 56

Why is P. jirovecii resistant to antifungals?

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Question 57

How do we treat pneumocystitis jirovecii?

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Question 58

what are the alternative therapies of PNP?

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