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Ch. 42: Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing Flashcards

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What is one of the world’s most pressing public and animal health problems?

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Antibiotic resistance

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What is antibiotic resistance?

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When a microbe changes or mutates in some way that reduces or eliminates the effectiveness of drugs, chemicals, or other agents designed to cure or prevent infections

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What are antibiotics?

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Medicine that inhibit the growth of or destroy microorganisms

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_____ can provide codes that allow bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics?

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DNA

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What are 3 ways bacteria can act antibiotically resistant?

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  1. Neutralize the antibiotic before it can do harm
  2. Rapidly pump the antibiotic out
  3. Change the antibiotic attack site so that it can’t affect the function of the bacteria
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It is _____ and not animals, that become resistant to drugs.

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Microbes

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The most common mutation/form of antimicrobial resistance involves what?

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Extended-spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL)

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What is B-lactamases also known as?

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Penicillinase

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What are B-lactamases?

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Enzymes produced by some bacteria that provide multiresistant to B-lactam antibiotics that break down the antibiotic structure

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What are B-lactam antibiotics typically used for?

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Treating infections with a broad spectrum of G+ and G- bacteria

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What are examples of B-lactam antibiotics?

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Penicillins, cephalosporins, and cephamycins

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What is the common element in all B-lactam antibiotics?

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A four-atom ring known as a B-lactam

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How is the bacteria able to break down B-lactam antibiotics?

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Through hydrolysis, lactamase produced by the bacteria cleaves the B-lactam ring, deactivating the antibacterial properties of the medication

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What bacterial species are examples of ESBLs?

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E. coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, and other G- rods

These are often also resistant to aminoglycosides, fluoroquinolones, and other antimicrobials

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What are the four ways bacteria can acquire DNA for antibiotic resistance?

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  1. Conjugation
  2. Tranformation
  3. Transduction
  4. Transposition
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What way of bacteria acquiring DNA is most common?

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Conjucation

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Transformation and Transduction typically occur between what bacteria?

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Bacteria that are the same or closely-related species

18
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What are plasmids?

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Circular DNA sections that replicate independently of chromosomes

19
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Conjucation is encoded by what structures?

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Plasmids or transposons

Plasmids is most common

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What are transposons?

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Mobile sections of DNA that can move between or within genomes

Aka transposable elements or jumping genes

21
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Conjugation requires _____ contact between cells.

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Direct

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What bacteria have a conjugation pilus (F-pilus or sex pilus) that allow for conjugation?

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Gram-negtive

It is not known how Gram-positive are able to do this

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What is DNA transformation?

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When bacteria take up extra-cellular DNA and incorporate it into their genomes (Usually from lysed cells that release their contents)

24
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What are “competent” bacteria?

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Bacteria able to bind large amounts of DNA

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What is cell “recombination”?

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The rearrangement of donor and recipient genomes into new, hybrid genomes

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What is DNA transduction?

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DNA is transferred from one cell to another by a bacteriophage (A virus that infects bacteria)

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Viruses can not replicate on their own and are known as what?

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Obligate parasites

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What are the two kinds of transduction?

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Generalized and specialized

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What are examples of penicillin antibiotics?

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Penicillin, Ampicillin, Amoxicillin, and Methicillin

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What are examples of cephalosporins?

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Cephalexin, Cephazolin, and Ceftazidime

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