Chapter 12 content

Question 1

Any chemical used in the treament, relief, or prophylaxis of a disease

Answer 1

chemotherapeutic drug

Question 2

use of a drug to prevent potential for infection in a person at risk

Answer 2

prophylaxis

Question 3

the use of chemotherapeutic drugs to control infection

Answer 3

antimicrobial chemotherapy

Question 4

All inclusive term for any anticmicrobial drug, regardless of origin

Answer 4

antimicrobials

Question 5

T/F are antimicrobials very specific for cellular target (one spot on one protein)

Answer 5

T

Question 6

Substances procuded by natural metabolic processes of some microorganisms that can inhibit or destroy other microorganisms

Answer 6

anitbiotics

Question 7

What do antibiotics treat

Answer 7

bacteria

Question 8

Compounds or substances produced by a living organism

Answer 8

natural products

Question 9

Antibiotics are typically produced by microbes to act against other microbes; this is a symbiotic relationship called

Answer 9

amensalism

Question 10

association between organisms of two different species in which one inhibited or destroyed and the other is unaffected

Answer 10

amensalism

Question 11

Who observes contaminating mold growth inhibits staphylococcal growth on a plate

Answer 11

Alexander Flemmin

Question 11

Who observes contaminating mold growth inhibits staphylococcal growth on a plate

Answer 11

Alexander Flemming

Question 12

What is the most prescribed antibiotic

Answer 12

penicillin G

Question 13

Penicillin G:
What is the therapeutic category

Answer 13

beta-lactam antibiotics

Question 14

Penicillin G:
dosage form

Answer 14

oral

Question 15

What are Methicillin, oxacillin, ampicillin, and carbenicillin’s drug type

Answer 15

semisynthetic penicillins

Question 16

What is the natural penicillin

Answer 16

benzylpenicillin G

Question 17

Drugs that are chemically modified in the lab after being isolated from natural source

Answer 17

semisynthetic drug

Question 18

Antimicrobial compounds synthesized entirely in the lab through chemical reactions

Answer 18

synthetic drugs

Question 19

Antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types; for example, a drug effective mainly for gram-positive bacteria

Answer 19

narrow spectrum

Question 20

Antimicrobials effective against a widearray of microbial types; for example, a drug effective mainly for gram-positive and gram- negative bacteria

Answer 20

broad spectrum

Question 21

What is the mechanism of action for penicillin

Answer 21

cell wall inhibitor

Question 22

What is the job of beta lactams

Answer 22

inhibit transpeptidase

Question 23

What is the job of transpeptidase

Answer 23

adds subunit to cell wall

Question 24

What is the job of bactoperol

Answer 24

ferries subunits to exterior

Question 25

how can microbes develop resistance to penicillin

Answer 25

alternative enzyme
drug inactivation

Question 26

Glycan is the

Answer 26

cell wall