Ch. 20 Antimicrobial Medications Flashcards
Who developed the first sulfa drug? What was it called?
Gerhard Domagk, Prontosil
Who was the German physician who came up the the drug to treat syphillis?
Paul Ehrlich, Salvarsan
Chemicals used to treat disease
Chemo therapeutic agents
Antimicrobials
Antimicrobials naturally produced by microorganisms
Antibiotics
Is a low or high therapeutic index safer?
High
Lowest dose toxic/ dose given
Bacteriostatic
Inhibit bacterial growth
Sulfa drugs
Bactericidal
Kill bacteria
What are some effects of combinations of drugs?
Antagonistic- counteracting
Synergistic- enhancer
Additive- neither anta or syner
Antibacterial medications that inhibit cell wall synthesis
Penicillins, cephalosporins, other beta-lactam
How do these beta Lacrae drugs inhibit cell wall synthesis?
Penicillin binding proteins are inhibited by penicillin, destroying the integrity of the cell wall
Beta lactamase
An enzyme in a bacterial cell that breaks the critical beta lactam ring
Penicillin plus beta lactamase inhibitor
Augmenting
Cephalosporins
From a fungus.
Vancomycin
Drug of last resort
Antibacterial Meds that inhibit proteins synthesis
Aminoglycosides- streptomycin
Can cause severe side effects
Tetracyclines
Block attachment of tRNA
Doxycycline
Glycylcyclines
Related to tetracycline
Macro life’s
Erythromycin clarithromycin azithromycin
What are the drugs that inhibit cell wall synthesis?
Penicillins, Beta Lactams, cephalosporins
What are the “other Beta Lactams”
Vancomycin
Bacitracin
What are the antibacterials that inhibit protein synthesis?
Aminoglycosides Tetracyclines Gycycyclines Macrolides Chloramphenicol Lincosamides Oxazolidinines Streptogramins
What is an examples of an aminoglycoside?
Streptomycin
Have severe side effects
What are the tetracyclines?
Doxycycline
Allergic to penicillin? Take a _____
Macrolide