Bacteria and their antibiotics

Question 1

Staph aureus

Answer 1

Vancomycin or daptomycin or flucloxacilin

Question 2

Strep pyogenes

Answer 2

Penicillin and cephalosporins

Question 3

Strep pheumoniae

Answer 3

Penicillin, cephalosporins, amoxicillin (sinus)

Question 4

Bacillus anthracis

Answer 4

ciprofloxacin or doxycycline

Question 5

Bacillus cereus

Answer 5

Self limiting

Question 6

Legionella pneumophilia

Answer 6

macrolides, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones

Question 7

Listeria monocytogenes

Answer 7

self limiting, penicillins, gentamicin, erythromycin

Question 8

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Answer 8

8 weeks of Isoniazid, rifampicin, Ethambutol, Pyrazinamide. Then 26 weeks of isoniazid and rifampicin. Latent= 36 weeks isoniazid

Question 9

Corynebacterium diphtheria

Answer 9

penicillin or erythromycin. Antitoxin

Question 10

Bordetella pertussis

Answer 10

erythromycin

Question 11

E. coli

Answer 11

Amoxicillin, kanamycin, ciprofloxacin

Question 12

Shigella

Answer 12

Bactrim and cephalosporins

Question 13

Salmonella enterica

Answer 13

ciprofloxacin and ampicillin

Question 14

Yersinia pestis

Answer 14

Streptomycin or gentamycin

Question 15

C. perfringens

Answer 15

high dose penicillin, wound debridement

Question 16

C. difficile

Answer 16

vancomycin and metronidazole

Question 17

C. tetani

Answer 17

Neutralization of unbound toxin with human anti-tetanus IgG.

Question 18

C. botulinum

Answer 18

Trivalent antitoxin, BabyBig/BIGIV

Question 19

Neisseria gonorrhea

Answer 19

Ceftriaxone, doxycycline added for chlamydia. Eyes washed with tetracycline

Question 20

Neisseria meningitidis

Answer 20

ceftriaxone or penicillin G