antimicrobial Flashcards
Mechanism Mechanism of resistance Clinical use (80 cards)
Mechanism of Penicillin sensitive penicillinase (amoxicillin, ampicillin, aminopenicillin)
- Same as Penicillins; block transpeptidase cross-linkingof peptidoglycan wall.
- Wider spectrum than penicillins
Clinical use of amoxicillen
HHELPSS
H.influenza, H.pylori, E.coli, Listeria, proteus, salmonella, shigella
Mechanism of Penicillin resistant penicillinase (dicloxacillin, nafcillin, oxacilllin
- Same as penicillins
- Narrow spectrum
What makes dicloxacillin
nafcillin, oxacilllin resistent to penicillinase?
Bulky R group blocks access of B-lactamase to B lactam ring.
Clinical use of dicloxacillin
S. Aureus (except MRSA)
Mechanism of resistance of nafcillin
MRSA alters penicillin-binding target site
Oxacillin side effects
Hypersensitivity
Interstitial nephritis
Mechanism of Antipseudomonal penicillins (piperacillin, ticarcillin)
- Same as penicillin
- Extended spectrum
Clinical use of piperacillin
Pseudomonas spp.
Gram - rods
B lactamase inhibitors aka penicillins BFFs
Added to penicillin antibiotics to protect from destruction.
Clavulanic acid, avibactam,sulbactam,tazobactam
Carbapenams
- IV only
- Life threateninig infections
- Given with cilastatin to decrease metaboism of drug (inhibits renal dehydropeptidase l to decrease inactivation of drug)
- SE: seizures
Which carbapenam is stable to dehydropeptidase l and has a decreased risk of seizures?
Meropenam
Monobactams (Aztreonam)
- Prevents cross linking by binding to penicillin-binding protein 3.
- Synergistic with aminoglycosides (mycins)
Clinical use of aztreonam
- Gram negative rods ONLY
- Pts with renal insufficiency who cannot tolerate gentamycin/streptomycin
Vancomycin
- Diffuse flushing
- Prevent side effects by slow infusion rate.
- Drug reaction with eosinophilia
- mechanism of resistance via amino acid modification to D-ALA D-LAC
Neomycin
Streptomycin
- Require O2 for uptake
- inhibit initiation complex by binding to 30s
- Can cause misreading of mRNA.
- Blocks transcription and translocation.
- neomycin for bowel surgery
Streptomycin clinical uses
- Severe gram negative rod infections.
- Synergistic with aztreonam
- Ototoxicity esp when given with loop diurectics like furosemide,bumetanide, torsemide
Streptomycin mechanism of resistance
Drug is inactivated by acetylation, phosphorylation or adenylation.
30s inhibitors
50s inhibitors
30s inhibitos:
aminoglycosides (bacteriocidal)
tetracyclines
50s inhibitors: macrolides (erythomycin) clindamycin, chloramphenicol, lizezolid
Tetracycline;
Doxy
Minocycline
Tertracycline
- Doxy can be used in renal failure and effective agaisnt MRSA
- prevent attachment of aminoacyl-tRNA
- Divalent cations inhibit drugs absorption in gut
Doxycycline mechanism of resistance
Decrease uptake or increase efflux out of bacterial cells by plasmid encoded transport pumps
Glycycycline (tigecycline)
-infections requiring deep tissue penetration.
Chloramphenicol
- Best CNS penetration
- Rapid absorption
- blocks peptidyltransferase at 50s
- Uses meningitis (h.influenza, n. Meningitidis, s. Pneumonia), rickettsial diseases
Chloramphenicol side effects
Side effects are mainly dose dependent (anemia, aplastic anemia)