ID Flashcards
What causes neurocysticerosis?
Taenia solium
Ingested larvae from undercooked pork
Treatment for cysticercosis
Praziquantel
Treatment for neurocysticerosis
Albendazole
Cause of hydatid cysts in liver and lungs?
What occurs when they rupture
Echinococcus granulosus
If hydatid cysts rupture can cause anaphylaxis
Tx Albendazole
What does clononchis sinesis increase risk of?
Cholangiocarcinoma
Schistosomas can cause which type of inflammatory disease?
Granulomatous disease
Why in acute schistosomiasis do you have severe fever, uricaria, angiooedema, myalgias and arthralgias 3-8 weeks post infection
Period of egg production, increased Antigen production causing hypersensitivity
Chronic schistosomasis leads to increased risk of?
SCC of bladder
Pulmonary HTN
Treatment for schistosomaiasis
Praziquantel
Corticosteroids
Treatment of scabies
Permethrin cream
Oral ivermectin
What is genetic recombination
Viruses exchange genetic material
What are the ESCAPPM organisms?
Enterobacter
Serratia
Citrobacter
Aeromonas
Proteus
Providencia
Morganella
MoA of penicillin
D-ala-D-ala structural analogue that Binds penicillin binding proteins -> blocks cross linking of peptidoglycan wall
MRSA resistance mechanism
Altered penicillin binding proteins
What are penicillinase sensitive penicillins and what use do they have?
Amoxicillin and ampicillin
Extended spectrum penicillin HHEELPSS
H influenza h pylori e coli enterococci listeria proteus salmonella shigella
Penicillin toxcitities
Direct coombs positive haemolytic anaemia
Drug induced interstitial nephritis
C diff pseudomembranous colitis
Hypersensitivity
Moa of vancomycin
Inhibition of peptidoglycan formation by binding to d ala d ala
Aminoglycoside moa
Irreversible inhibition of ribosome initiation complex Binds 30s subunit, needs o2 so no anaerobic activity
Aminoglycoside mechanism of resistance
Bacterial transferase enzymes inactivate the drug via acetylation, phosphorylation or adenylation
Linezolid moa
Inhibits ribosome 50s unit and prevents initiation complex
Linezolid resistance
Point mutation of ribosome rna
What are the macrolides
Azithromycin, erythromycin, clarithromycin
Macrolide moa
Inhibit translocation in the ribosome so proteins cannot be produced, bacteriostatic
Macrolide uses
Atypical mycoplasma, chlamydia, legionella, Gram +ve cocci
Macrolide resistance
Methylation of 23s rRNA binding site, drug can’t bind
Macrolide side effects
MACRO
gi motility, arrthymia (qt prolongation) cholestatic hepatitis, rash, eosinophilia
Linezolid also inhibits
MAO inhibitor, causes serotonin syndrome
Linezolid ADRs
Thrombocytopenia, peripheral neuropathy, serotonin syndrome, lactic acidosis
Tetracyclines and moa
Doxycycline
Binds to 30s subunit, prevents trna attachement
Doxycycline resistance
Reduced uptake or increased removal from cell by Plasmid encoded transport pump
Type of bacteria doxycycline best against
Intracellular
Rickettsia and chlamydia
Use in atypicals
Clindamycin moa
Blocks tranlocation of peptides at 50s ribosome subunit
Clindomycin uses
Aneorobes above the diaphragm
Clindamycin adrs
C diff
Sulfonamides and their moa
Sulfamethoxazole
Inhibit DHF synthesis, inhibits foliate synthesis, bacteriostatic
Sulfonamides adr
Hypersensitivity
If g6pd def then haemolysis
Tubulointerstitual nephritis
SJS
Displaces other drugs from alb (warfarin)
Sulfonamides resistance
Altered enzyme leads to decreased uptake or increases PABA synthesis
Dapsone moa
Inhibit DHF synthesis, inhibits foliate synthesis, bacteriostatic
Dapsone adrs
Methhaemoglobulinaemia, agranulocytosis, hameolysis if g6pd def
Trimethoprim moa
Inhibits bacterial dihydrofolate reductase, bacteriostatic
Trimethoprim adrs
HyperK, megaloblastic anaemia, leukopenia, granulocytopenia
Daptomycin moa
Creates transmembrane channels in Gram +ve cocci
What is dapsone used in
S aureus skin infections
Can’t use in lungs, inactivated by surfactant
Dapsone adrs
Myopathy, rhabdo
Metronidazole moa
Forms toxic free radical metabolites in bacteria which kills it
Also kills protozoa