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Hospital acquired infection and antibiotic resistance Flashcards

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Reasons for high rate of hospital-acquired infection

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  • High numbers of ill people
  • Very crowded wards
  • High amounts of pathogen nearby
  • Broken skin from surgical wounds, IVs, catheters
  • Antibiotic therapy allows antibiotic-resistant pathogens to accumulate
  • Transmission by staff who don’t wash hands properly
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Antimicrobial definition

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A chemical that selectively kills or inhibits microbes

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Bactericidal definition

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Kills bacteria

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Bacteriostatic definition

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Stops bacteria growing

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Antiseptic definition

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A chemical that kills or inhibits microbes, usually used topical to prevent infection

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Minimal inhibitory concentration definition

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The lowest concentration of antibiotic required to inhibit growth

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Tetracycline mechanism of action

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  • Targets protein synthesis
  • Binds to 30s ribosomal subunit
  • Prevents peptide elongation
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Chloramphenicol mechanism of action

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  • Targets protein synthesis
  • Binds to 50s ribosomal subunit
  • Prevents peptidyl transfer step
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Erythromycin mechanism of action

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  • Targets protein synthesis
  • Gram positive bacteria affected
  • Truncation of polypeptides
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Sulphonamides mechanism of action

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  • Inhibition of essential metabolites

- Targets specific enzymes

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List of important bacteriostatic antimicrobials

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  • Tetracycline
  • Chloramphenicol
  • Erythromycin
  • Sulphonamides
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List of important bactericidal antimicrobials

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  • Beta-lactams (penicillin, methicillin)
  • Quinolones
  • Gentamicin
  • Streptomycin
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Penicillin/methicillin (beta-lactams) mechanism of action

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  • Targets cell wall synthesis
  • Bind to Penicillin Binding Protein (PBP) and inhibit function
  • No peptidoglycan synthesised
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Quinolones mechanism of action

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  • Inhibit nucleic acid replication and transcription
  • Target DNA gyrase in Gram negative
  • Target topoisomerase in Gram positive
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Gentamicin/Streptomycin mechanism of action

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  • Target protein synthesis

- Targets 30s ribosomal subunit

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Reason for antimicrobials acting as selective pressure on microbes

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Antimicrobial usage will kill all bacteria who do not possess resistance genes in a population. However, those that do will survive, and thus proliferate further until the new population is entirely resistant to that antimicrobial. Thus here the antimicrobial has acted as a selection pressure.

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Genetic mechanisms of resistance

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  • Altering target site for antimicrobials, e.g. encoding an alternative PBP
  • Inactivation of antibiotic, e.g. enzyme degradation of antibiotic molecules, encode beta-lactamase which breaks down beta-lactams
  • Antibiotic efflux, e.g. encoding for efflux pumps which pump antibiotic molecules back out of cell
  • Altered metabolism, e.g. increasing production of substrate to out-compete antibiotic as inhibitor, can switch to other uninhibited metabolic pathways
  • Decreased drug accumulation, e.g. reduced penetration of antibiotic into bacteria
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Non-genetic mechanisms of antibiotic resistance

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  • Forming a biofilm
  • Changing intracellular location of targeted sites
  • Slow growth
  • Spores
  • Persisters
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Penicillin resistance mechanisms

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  • Penicillinases break down antibiotic, gained from plasmid transformation
  • Modification of PBP, gained from point mutation
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Tetracycline resistance mechanism

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Efflux pump, gained by plasmid conjugation

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Quinolone resistance mechanism

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Target site modification, gained by point mutation

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Cefotaxime resistance mechanisms

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Target site modification, gained by point mutation

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Sources of antibiotic resistance genes

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  • Plasmids
  • Transposons, integrate into chromosomal DNA, allows transfer of genes from plasmid to chromosome and vice versa
  • Naked DNA from dead bacteria in environment
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Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance gene spread

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  • Transformation, uptake of extracellular DNA
  • Transduction, phage inserts resistance gene into cell
  • Conjugation, DNA transferred from cell to cell by a conjugation bridge
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Examples of important antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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  • Methicillin-resistant staph.aureus (MRSA)
  • Vancomycin-insensitive S.aureus (VISA)
  • Clostridium difficile
  • Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)
  • E.coli
  • P.aeruginosa
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Reasons for longer hospital stays, more medical costs and increase in mortality and morbidity caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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  • New resistant strain must be treated
  • More specific/expensive treatment required to eliminate resistant strains
  • Mortality and morbidity increased because disease is more severe and some may have no treatment
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Strategies for decreasing antimicrobial resistance rate of increase

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  • Tighter controls on prescribing strategies
  • Temporary withdrawal of certain antibiotic classes
  • Restriction of antibiotics for certain serious infections
  • Reducing use of broad-spectrum antibiotics
  • Quicker identification of infections caused by resistant strains
  • Combination therapy
  • Better knowledge of local strains/resistance patterns
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Strategies for overcoming resistance

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  • Modification of existing medications, preventing cleavage of beta-lactams and enhancing efficacy of methicillin
  • Combinations of antibiotic and inhibitor of resistance mechanism e.g. beta-lactams with augmenting (inhibits beta-lactamases)

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