Antimicrobial Resistance Flashcards
What are the three major purposes of antimicrobial prescription?
Therapeutic: If an individual is sick, treat patient to cure.
Metaphylactics: If one patient is noticed in a heard, treat the whole heard to prevent spread.
Prophylactic: Seasonal prescription of drug to prevent the most susceptible population within a heard.
What is contributing to antimicrobial resistance/ overuse?
Metaphylactics: If one patient is noticed in a heard, treat the whole heard to prevent spread.
Prophylactic: Seasonal prescription of drug to prevent the most susceptible population within a heard.
- Antimicrobial overuse in intensive farms (pigs & poultry), dry cow therapy, and shipping of animals
What is the main starting cause of Antimicrobial resistance?
Unregulated use of antimicrobials in
animal or humans to AMR bacteria
What is the trend of spread of antimicrobial resistance?
Unregulated antimicrobial use -> Use of feces/ water contained with AMR bacteria as fertilizer-> food containing AMR bacteria from feces -> AMR bacteria spread to public via food and water
What is the current morbidity and mortality due to antimicrobial resistance cases?
Morbidity : 2 million people in the US
Mortality: 1-27 million people globally
What is the projected morbidity and global economic cost due to antimicrobial resistance cases in 2050?
Morbidity : 10 million people in the US annually
Economic cost: 100 trillion
What are the mode of bacterial growth?
Plankton life stage finds a place to attach, and begins immobile/ sessile growth. Its biofilm matures and at a certain point it will begin to disperse.
What are the 5 major groups of bacteria? What are they classified by?
Bacteria are classified into 5 major groups by their cell wall architecture
- Classic Gram +
- Mycobacterium
- Classic Gram -
- Chlamydia
- Mycoplasma
What is a classic gram positive bacteria cell wall architecture?
- several layers ( tiers of peptidoglycan with lipo/teichoic acid.
What is the cell wall architecture of a mycobacterium?
peptidoglycan is covered by mycolic acid (wax or lipids)
What is the cell wall architecture of a classic gram negative bacteria?
Outer membrane (OM) made up of protiens & lipopolysaccharide ( lipid A & sugar or endotoxin)
What is the cell wall architecture of Chlamydia bacteria?
cell wall without peptidoglycan. Outermembrane with protiens and lipopolysaccharide ( lipid A + sugar or endotoxin)
What is the cell wall architecture of mycoplasma bacteria?
Mycoplasma has no cell wall
has sterols in cell membrane
Is mycoplasma stained by gram stain?
NO
If you have an antimicrobial that acts by inhibiting cell wall, which major group of bacteria will be resistant?
Mycoplasma
What are the steps to gram staining bacterial slides?
- ) Fix bacteria to slide using flame 2-3 x
- ) Add crystal violet and aggitate for 60 seconds
- ) Add iodine and aggitate for 60 seconds
- ) Decolorize slide with (alcohol) for 15 seconds
- ) Stain with Safranin for 60 seconds.
What does each letter indicate on this image of a bacteria?
A.) Capsule
B.) Porins
C.) Pili
What are biofilms?
Dense bacteria community
What are the 6 mechanisms of action of microbials?
Cell wall synthesis
Metabolism – folic acid synthesis
30S – protein synthesis
50S – protein synthesis
RNA polymerase – mRNA (RNA synthesis)
DNA gyrase/topoisomerase
(DNA synthesis)
Which antibiotics interfere with bacterial cell wall synthesis?
β-lactams
Penicillins
Cephalosporins
Carbapenems
Monobactams
mnemonic: Bitter People Can Carry Misery
Which antibiotics interfere with bacterial metabolism/ folic acid synthesis?
Sulfonamides Trimethoprim
Mnemic Second Trimester
Which antibiotics interfere with 30 S bacterial protein synthesis?
Tetracyclines
Aminoglycosides
mnemonic: 30S Alarm Tone
Which antibiotics interfere with 50 S bacterial protein synthesis?
Mycolides
Chloroamphenicol
mnemonics: 50$ Cash Money
Which antibiotics interfere with RNA polymerase - RNA synthesis?
Rifamycins
Which antibiotics interfere with DNA gyrase/topoisomerase (DNA synthesis)?
Flouroquinolones
Nitroimidazoles
mnemonic: DNA’s For Nerds
What are the 4 major new AMR mechanisms?
- ) Reduced permeability
- ) Efflux Pumping (vomiting)
- ) Drug inactivation by enzymes
- ) Target site change, modification or protection.
How does Biofilm formation also affect AMR?
- ) Induced extracellular polymer (matrix) production as a barrier
- ) Thick impenetrable communities as a barrier
- ) Low nutrient & oxygen supply to the center
- ) Dormant spore-like cell in the center for persistence
Limit uptake due to low permeability
What antibiotics are less efficient due to the following AMR mechanism: Mutation on the porin channel to reduce membrane permeability & limit entry of the drug into cytoplasm
Amonoglycosides
Quinolones
beta-lactam
Chloramphenicol
Rifamycin
Tetracycline
What antibiotics are less efficient due to the following AMR mechanism: Acquire efflux transporter genes or increase their expression for pumping out the drug from the cytoplasm
Tetracycline
What antibiotics are less efficient due to the following AMR mechanism: Change the drug target sites by modification, mutation, capping or protection of binding-site
Amonoglycosides
Tetracycline
Rifamycin
Quinolones
beta-lactams
What antibiotics are less efficient due to the following AMR mechanism: Expression of potent enzymes that destroy or enzymatically modify the drug (mainily encoded by plasmid)
beta-lactams
Amonoglycosides
What is the major AMR mechanism that inhibits Beta lactams and amonoglycosides?
Expression of potent enzymes that destroy or enzymatically modify the drug (mainily encoded by plasmid)
What is the major AMR mechanism that inhibits Chloramphenicol Microlids?
Change the drug target sites by modification, mutation, capping or protection of binding-site
What is the major AMR mechanism that inhibits Quinolones?
Change the drug target sites by modification, mutation, capping or protection of binding-site