Exam 3 Review Flashcards
Who is Alexander Fleming and what is his contribution to antibiotics
He discovered penicillin
What is the genus names of the bacteria that are the most common sources of antibiotics?
Streptomyces and Bacillus
What is the genus names of the fungi that are the most common sources of antibiotics?
Penicillium and Cephalosporium
Penicillin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- Resistant microbes produce beta lactase that break the central ring of the penicillin molecule.
Clavulanic Acid:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- Inhibits beta lactase enzymes
Cephalosporins:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
-Targets the cell wall
-Can be affected by beta lactase producing microbes.
(good for people allergic to penicillin)
Carbepenems:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
-Targets the cell wall.
-Resistant to beta lactamase enzymes.
(good for people allergic to penicillin)
Bacitracin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- used topically against staph and step.
Vancomycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- used for multidrug resistant staph or strep infections.
Isoniazid:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- inhibits the synthesis of mycolic acid. used in combination therapy to treat tuberculosis and leprosy.
Ethambutol:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets the cell wall.
- prevents the incorporation of mycolic acid in the cell wall. used in combination with isoniazid.
Streptomycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets 70S ribosomes (protein synthesis)
- first drug to treat gram-negative infection.
- can cause nephrotoxicity & ototoxicity
Neomycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets 70S ribosomes (protein synthesis)
- treats gram negative infection
- is nephrotoxic so is usually used topically.
Tetracycline:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets 70S ribosomes (protein synthesis)
- can cause stains on teeth
- causes super infections.
Erythromycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets 70S ribosomes (protein synthesis)
- used for respiratory, ear and skin infections.
(z pack, and good for people allergic to penicillin)
Clindamycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets 70S ribosomes (protein synthesis)
- good for anaerobic infections.
- used to treat drug resistant staph and stomach and intestinal infections that do not respond to other medications.
Sulfonamides:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
-Targets microbial metabolism
-Inhibits the synthesis of folic acid
(we don’t make our own folic acid, we get it from food)
(used to treat UTI’s)
Fluoroquinolones:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets DNA or RNA
- Inhibits bacterial topoisomerase or helicases (inhibits DNA synthesis)
(used for:anthrax,kidney infections,pnemonia)
Rifamycin:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
- Targets DNA or RNA
- Inhibits RNA synthesis
(used for: tuberculosis, meningitis)
Polymyxin B:
What is it’s mode of action?
How does it work?
-Targets the Plasma Membrane
-Interacts with phospholipids and distorts the plasma membrane, making it leaky.
(normally used topically, and can be used for pseudomonas)
Problem with treating fungal infections is that they are?
eukaryotic cells.
- injectable drug
- used for fungal infections
Amphotericin B
Name the drug:
used for systemic fungal infection
Ketoconazole
Name the drug:
used for AIDS related mycoses (fungal)
Fluconazole
Name the drugs:
used to treat infections in the skin, mouth and vagina. (fungal)
Clotrimazole and miconazole
Name the drugs:
dissolves in the blood and CSF.
used to treat cutaneous mycoses (fungal)
usually combined with amphotericin B
Flucytosine
Agents to treat protozoal infections are?
Quinine
Matronidazole
Drug for:
original drug for treating malaria?
Quinine
What do these drugs replace: quinolones, chloroquine and primaquine
Quinine
What is widely used amoebicide and general purpose antiprotozoal
Metronidazole
Which drug:
-Treats intestinal infections and hepatic disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica
-Also treats Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis
Metronidazole
Mebendazole and albendazole kills?
round worms
Pyrantel _________ the muscles of intestinal __________.
paralyzes, roundworms
What is a veterinary drug that is used for river blindness and lymphatic filariasis in humans.
It is usually used to prevent heart worms in dogs.
Ivermectin
The best thing to use for viruses is?
vaccines
What blocks HIV binding?
Enfuvirtide
What drugs block the flu from binding?
Amantadine + zanamivir + oseltamivir
What drug makes herpes viruses repress?
Acyclovir
What drug helps RSV lassa fever
Ribavirin
reverse transcriptase inhibitor
AZT
protease inhibitor
saquinavir
What targets peptidoglycan
Inhibition of cell wall synthesis
What targets the prokaryotic ribosome
Inhibition of protein synthesis
What targets the plasma membrane
Interference with cell membrane structure and function
What targets a metabolic process in the microbe that is different?
Inhibition of a metabolic process
What is effective against more than one group of bacteria
- Advantage is that you don’t have to know the cause of the infection first
- Disadvantage is that you will kill normal flora and cause a superinfection
Broad-spectrum drugs
What targets a specific group?
- Advantage is that you will not kill normal flora (at least not as much)
- Disadvantage is that you must be reasonably sure of the cause of the infection
Narrow-Spectrum Drugs
Which are the microbes that were once small in number overgrow when normal resident biota are destroyed by broad-spectrum antimicrobials
Super Infection
absolutely toxic to the infectious agent and nontoxic to the host this is?
selectively toxic
What are semisynthetic antibiotics?
They are biochemically altered drugs in a lab to give it better qualities.
What are natural antibiotics?
They are unaltered molecules.
What test for drug susceptibility measures the zone of inhibition surrounding the discs is measured and compared with a standard for each drug?
Kirby-Bauer technique
What test for drug susceptibility is this?
-Antimicrobial is diluted
-Each tube is inoculated with a small uniform sample of pure culture
-Minimum inhibitory concentration
The test can be expanded to determine a MBC (Minimum bactericidal concentration
Tube dilution tests
What are the two tests that test drug susceptibility?
- Kirby-Bauer technique
- Tube dilution tests
What is the ratio of the dose of the drug that is toxic to humans as compared to its minimum effective (therapeutic) dose
Therapeutic index
Which phase is done in healthy young people (usually males) to test for toxicity
Phase I Clinical trial of Human Clinical Trials
Which phase is done in persons with the infection or disorder to see if the drug is effective
Phase II clinical trials of Human Clinical Trials
Which phase continues after phase II but compares the drug to any current treatments on the market
Phase III clinical trials of Human Clinical Trials
Which phase occurs after market studies
Phase IV of Human Clinical Trials
An adaptive response in which microorganisms begin to tolerate an amount of drug that would normally be inhibitory is?
drug resistance
Drug resistance for antimicrobials is in the?
microbe not the host.
Microbes can become resistant to a drug after?
- spontaneous mutation
- acquisition of entire new genes or sets of gene via horizontal transfer from another species.
What breaks the central ring of the penicillin molecule?
beta lactamase
Nutrients that encourage the growth of beneficial microbes are?
pre-biotics
Preparations of live microorganisms fed to animals and humans to improve intestinal biota are?
probiotics
What are the first line of barrier defenses?
any barrier that blocks invasion at the portal of entry.
Barrier defenses:
skin
shedding and sweating
Barrier defenses:
mucous
coat impend entry and attachment
Barrier defenses:
lacrimal apparatus:
blinking, and tear production across the eye.
Barrier defenses:
constant flow of saliva cleanses….
the oral cavity and carries microbes to the stomach.
Barrier defenses:
Respiratory tract:
- nasal hairs trap larger particles
- copious flow of mucus and fluids provides flushing action
- ciliated epithelium convey particles trapped in mucus toward the pharynx
- sneeze relex expels a large amount of air at high velocity
- foreign matter in the bronchi, trachea, and larynx triggers coughing to eject irritants
Barrier defenses:
Gastrointestinal tract:
-Stomach acids, and digestive enzymes in the stomach and small intestine kill most microbes.