Beta Lactam Antibiotics

Question 0

Beta Lactam antibiotics

Answer 0

Cell wall synthesis inhibitors
Disrupt the balance between bacterial autolysin(punches holes in cell wall allowing for restructuring of cell wall) and cell wall synthesis activity leading to cell wall degradation and bacterial cell lysis

Question 1

Name classes of Beta Lactam antibiotics

Grouped based on core structure

Answer 1

Penicillins
Cephalosporins
Carbapenems
Monobactams

Question 2

Drugs that have risk for opportunistic infection, Clostridium Difficille

Answer 2

Cephalosporins and vancomycin