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What are antibiotics only active against?

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Bacteria

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What are bactericidal?

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Antimicrobial that kills bacteria (penicillins)

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What does sensitive mean?

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An organism is sensitive if it is inhibited or killed by the antimicrobial available at the site of infection

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What is minimal bactericidal concentration (MBC)?

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Minimum concentration of antimicrobial needed to kill a given organism

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What is bacteriostatic?

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Antimicrobial that inhibits the growth of bacteria

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What does resistant mean?

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Organism is resistant if it is not killed or inhibited by the antimicrobial available at the site of infection

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What is minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC)?

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Minimum concentration of antimicrobial needed to inhibit the growth of a given organism

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What are the routes of antimicrobial administration?

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Topical (applied to a surface such as the skin)

Systematic (taken internally, such as orally or parentally)

Parenteral (administered intravenously or intramuscularly)

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What is parenteral administeration?

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Administered intravenously or intramuscularly

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What can antibiotics do to bacteria?

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Kill or inhibit it

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What are the 3 areas of bacterial metabolic activity that antibiotics can act on?

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Inhibition of cell wall synthesis

Inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis

Inhibition of protein synthesis

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Why are humans not harmed by antibiotics that inhibit cell wall synthesis?

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Human cells do not have cell walls

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What bacteria inhibit cell wall synthesis?

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B-lactams:

Penicillins
Cephalosporins

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How do B-lactams stop cell wall synthesis?

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Disrupting peptidoglycans synthesis by inhibiting enzymes (penillin-binding proteins, PBPs) responsible for cross linking the chains

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What proteins do B-lactams target?

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Penicillin binding proteins (PBPs)

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What do glycopeptides act on?

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Gram positive bacteria, they are unable to penetrate the wall of gram negative

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What are examples of glycopeptides?

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Vancomycin

Teicoplanin

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How are glycopeptides given and why?

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Paternally because they are not absorbed from the GI tract

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How do glycopeptides work?

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Inhibit cell wall synthesis at a stage earlier than B-lactams, inhibiting the seemble of a peptidoglycan precurser

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What do glycopeptides inhibit?

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Peptidoglycan precurser

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What allows selective action on bacteria protein synthesis?

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Differences between bacterial and mammalian ribosomes

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What are different classes of drugs used to inhibit protein synthesis?

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Aminoglycans

Macrolides

Tetraclyclines

Oxazolidinones

Cyclic lippeptide

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What do aminoglycans act on?

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Gram negative bacteria

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How do aminoglycans work?

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Insert a different amino acid into the protein

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What do macrolides act on?
Gram positive bacteria
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What are macrolides an alternative to?
Penicillins for people who are allergic
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How do tetracyclines work?
Masks the codon on mRNA so the tRNA cannot bind
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What is an example of a oxazolidinone?
Linezolid
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How do oxazolidinones work?
Prevents the starting codon on the mRNA to be recognised by tRNA
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What is an example of cyclic lippeptide and what does it work against?
Daptomycin which works against gram positive bacteria, MRSA in particular
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How does cyclic lippeptide work?
Creates pores on the cell membrane causing leakage of ions and change of membrane potential, change prevents protein, DNA and RNA synthesis
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How can antibiotics inhibit DNA synthesis?
Directly Indirectly (acting on precursors for DNA synthesis)
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What are some inhibitors of nucleic acid synthesis?
Co-trimoazole Flouroquinolones
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What is co-trimoazole a combination of?
Trimethoprim and sulphamethoxazole
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What does co-trimoxazole inhibit?
Steps in purine synthesis (2 of the 4 bases)
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What is co-trimoxazole commonly used to treat?
Urinary tract infections Chest infections
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How does flouroquinolones work?
Inhibit DNA synthesis directly by preventing the wrapping of DNA
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Who can flouroquinolone not be used in and why?
Children as it interferes with cartilage growth
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What are flouroquinolones effective against?
Gram negative bacteria
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How are flouroquinolones administered?
Orally Parenterally
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How can antibiotic sensitivity of an organism be measured?
In the lab
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Why would we want to measure antibiotic sensitivity of an organism?
Predict if an infection will respond to treatment with that antibiotic
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How is resistance acquired by bacteria?
Genetically
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What are the 2 types of resistance?
Inherent resistance Acquired resistance
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What is inherent resistant?
All strains of a given species are naturally resistant to antibiotics
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What is an example of inherent resistance?
Streptococci always resistant to aminoglycans Gram negative always resistant to vancomycin
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What is acquired resistance?
May be present in some strains but not others
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What are the 2 ways that acquired resistance can be obtained?
Spontaneous mutation (change in structure or function which no longer allows the antibiotic to act) Spread of resistance (genes that code for resistance can spreads from organism to organism or from species to species, being carried on plasmids or transposons)
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What is resistance spread using?
Plasmids or transposons
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What are plasmids?
Extra chromosomal packages of DNA
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What are transporons?
Packets of DNA which insert themselves into the chromosome
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What causes selective pressure and encourages new resistant organisms to outgrow sensitive strains?
Widespread use of antibiotics
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What are some current issues in antibiotic resistance?
B-lactamase production Extended spectrum B-lactamases (ESBLs) Carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE) or carbapenum resistance enterobacteriaciae (CRE) Alterations of penicillin binding protein (PBP) target site Glycopeptide resistance
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What is B-lactamase?
An enzyme that cleave the B-lactam ring of the antibiotic thus render it inactive
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What produces B-lactamases?
Most hospital stains of staphyloccocuc Common in gram negative bacteria
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What produces extended spectrum B-lactamases (ESBLs)?
Some gram negative bacteria
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What are carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and carbapenum resistant enterobacteriaiae (CRE)?
Extremely resistant gram negative organisms to the carbapenems
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What is alteration of penicillin binding protein (PBP) active site?
Develop resistance by changing the structure of their PBP (enzymes involved in peptidoglycan synthesis)
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What alters their penicillin binding proteins?
Staph.Aureus known as methicillin resistant Staph.Aureus or MRSA
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What can glycopeptides usually be relied on to treat?
Gram positive bacteria
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What is an example of glycopeptide resistance?
Some enterococci is vancomycin resistant
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What are the 2 ways to combat B-lactamases?
Introduce a second component to the antibiotic (B-lactamase inhibitor) protecting the antibiotic from enzyme degradation Modify the antibiotic side chain producing new antibiotic resistant to the actions of B-lactamase
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What is an example of an antibiotic using a B-lactamase inhibitor?
Amoxicillin plus the inhibitor clavulanic acid
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What is an example of an antibiotic with a modified side chain to be resistant to the actions of B-lactamase?
Flucloxacillin

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