CD 21 Flashcards
What are the reason pharamceutical industries not investing on Antimicrobila drugs ?
Patents expire relatively soon after market induction
- Treatment time tends to decrease
- Higher investements
What are the possible solutions for the pharma industries?
Patent extensions,
Academia-industry collaborations
Incentives
What is the name of newly Development antimicrobials and when?
Teixobactin in 2015
Teixobactin Can be resistance?
This drug is quite unique and has no resistance.
Teixobactin isolated from ?
soil organism
Teixobactin works against?
peptidoglycan in gram +ve organisms,
active against MRSA
Does Teixobactin synthesize easy or difficult?
Teixobactin Difficult to synthesize
and Low oral bioavailability
What is the other type of Alternative Therapies for a bacterial infection?
Immunotherapy
Anti-microbial therapies
Teixobactin binds to?
Peptidoglycan in gram + ve organisms only and not active against G-
active against MRSA
Wat are the other type of Alternative Therapies for bacterial infection?
Immunotherapy
Anti-microbial therapies
What is Immunotherapy?
Boost immunity or give them immunity (called passive immunisation) in vulnerable populations.
How immunotherapy work to treat infection?
Act on the immune system when bacteria and immunity fight each other than we introduce immunization into the host body.
Or we can act on pathogen directly.
What are prophylactic vaccines?
Prevent disease by vaccination in individuals and decrease spread through a community.
2 types Active and passive
What are the Therapeutic vaccines?
Patient already sick, still experimental- HIV, Hepatitis.
What are the anti-microbial therapies by using antibodies?
Usually been used before the discovery of antimicrobials
Too Expensive then antimicrobials.
Used for diphtheria and tetanus.