Chapter 4: Medications To Control Infections

Question 1

What are Antibiotics?

Answer 1

Are drugs that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and are used to treat bacterial infections.

Question 2

What are Antifungals?

Answer 2

Also known as antimycotics, represent a large and diverse group of drugs used to treat fungal infections.

Question 3

What are Antivirals?

Answer 3

Drugs that kill viruses or inhibit their ability to reproduce.

Question 4

What does Vaccines do?

Answer 4

Create the same antibodies as those produced if the person was exposed to the pathogen.

Question 5

What happens if the person then comes into contact with the disease-causing microbe?

Answer 5

The immune system remembers the antibodies it made to the vaccine and can make them faster. The person is immune to the pathogen.