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1
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What is the largest class of beta lactam antibiotics?

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Cephalosporins

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Cephalosporin ring structure is more ___ stable

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Acid

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Are cephalosporins susceptible to acid hydrolysis in the gut?

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Yes, just not as much as penicillins

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How are cephalosporins administered?

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Many are IV only, but some oral forms also exist

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Why are some cephalosporins IV only?

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Very hydrophilic w/ many H-bond donors and acceptors, and may even be charged; this breaks Lipinski’s rules

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Are cephalosporins more or less broad spectrum than penicillins?

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More broad spectrum

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What are cephalosporins effective against that penicillins aren’t?

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Many gram neg species and more anaerobes

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Why are cephalosporins more stable than penicillins?

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Beta lactam ring strain is much lower

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Describe the reactive carbonyl of cephalosporins

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Like penicillins, the beta lactam carbonyl carbon of cephalosporins is more electrophilic than a typical amine due to lack of resonance

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Which area of cephalosporins can be involved in causing beta lactam ring opening?

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Side chain amide

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How can oral absorption of cephalosporins be increased?

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Using the same strategies to engineer acid resistance in penicillins

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Cephalosporins are ___ resistant to beta lactamases than pencillins

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More (making them broader spectrum)

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Which isomer form shoud the oxime group on the R2 (alpha carbon) be in for a cephalosporin?

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Cis (only this isomer confers beta lactamase resistance; trans isomer has no effect on beta lactamase activity important)

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Cephalosporins that cover pseudomonas and MSSA are ___ gen

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4th

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15
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Do cephalosporins cover MRSA?

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Nope (except a few)

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16
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What makes cephalexin orally active?

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  • EW R2 amino group

- Methyl group on position 3 is hydrophobic, which increases oral absorption but also reduces potency

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17
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What is the spectrum of cephalexin?

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  • Gram pos (strep species, MSSA)
  • Gram neg (E coli, klebsiella)
  • Few anaerobes
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18
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What makes cefaclor orally active?

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  • EW (NH2) R2 group

- Position 3 Cl (increases potency and doesn’t increase hydrophilicity, so has good oral absorption)

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What is the spectrum of cefaclor and cefprozil?

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  • Gram pos (strep species, MSSA)
  • Gram neg (E coli and klebsiella)
  • H. influenza and N. meningitidis
  • Some anaerobes
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What makes cefprozil orally active?

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  • EW R2 group
  • Tyrosine-like group that increases absorption likely by AA transport
  • Position 3 hydrophobic group
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What makes cefuroxime axetil more potent than cephalexin? What is a downside to this difference?

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  • Position 3 group is EW
  • This group is a substrate for esterases (converts inactive form to active form, but also converts active form to a much less active form)
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What is the spectrum of cefuroxime axetil?

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  • Gram pos (strep species, MSSA)
  • Gram neg is broader than cefaclor
  • Some anaerobes
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23
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What is cefufroxime axetil used to treat?

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Non-hospital acquired strep pneumoniae

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For cephalosporins, are position 3 groups that are EW and hydrophobic more or less potent compared to EW hydrophilic groups?

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Hydrophobic = less potent

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What is the spectrum of cefixime?

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  • Gram pos (strep species)
  • Gram neg (E coli, Klebsiella)
  • H. influenza and N. meningitidis
  • Not MSSA
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What is cefixime used for?

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Pediatric UTI’s

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27
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What is cefazolin used for?

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As a surgical antibiotic given 1 hour prior to start and infused during

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What makes cefoxitin resistant to beta lactamase?

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Methoxy group, but this also reduces potency

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What is the spectrum of cefoxitin?

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  • Gram pos (strep species, MSSA)
  • Many gram neg
  • Many anaerobes
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30
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What is important to note about the strong EW X group of cefoxitin?

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  • Potent
  • No oral absorption
  • Susceptible to hydrolysis and spontaneous lactone formation, so shortens t 1/2
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31
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What makes ceftriaxone resistant to beta lactamase?

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Oxime structure

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32
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What is the spectrum of ceftriaxone?

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  • Most gram pos except MRSA
  • Most gram neg
  • Most anaerobes
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33
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What is ceftriaxone used to treat?

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Meningitis

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34
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What makes ceftazidime and cefepime resistant to beta lactamase?

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Bulky oxime structure

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What is the spectrum of ceftazidime and cefepime?

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  • Most gram pos except MRSA
  • Most gram neg
  • Most anaerobes
  • Effective anti-pseudomonal
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What is cefepime used to treat?

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Skin infections, abdominal infections, and pneumonia

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37
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What is the spectrum of cefetecol?

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  • Activity against many gram pos and gram neg

- Anti-pseudomonal

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38
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What do all beta lactamase inhibitors have the potential to do?

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Irreversibly covalently modify beta lactamase

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39
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What is the benefit to administering beta lactams w/ beta lactamase inhibitors?

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Protects beta lactam from hydrolysis by beta lactamase, which widens the spectrum of the beta lactam

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How can you make a beta lactam cover MSSA that normally doesn’t cover it?

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Administer beta lactam w/ beta lactamase inhibitor

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41
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What are some beta lactamase inhibitors?

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  • Clavulanic acid
  • Sulbactam
  • Tazobactam
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42
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Which ring structure is the most strained of the beta lactams?

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Carbapenem

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43
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What are characteristics of carbapenems?

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  • Extremely potent and very broad spectrum
  • Not orally active, IV only
  • Rapidly metabolized (some metabolized by dehydropeptidase 1 in the kidney)
  • Chemically unstable
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What makes imipenem susceptible to hydrolysis by dehydropeptidase 1 and how can this be avoided?

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  • No R2 substitution

- Can be administered in combination w/ cilastatin, which inhibits dehydropeptidase 1

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45
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Do carbapenems work against MRSA?

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Never

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46
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What is the spectrum of imipenem and meropenem?

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  • Most gram pos, except MRSA
  • Most gram neg, even pseudomonas species (so is an anti-pseudomonal)
  • Most anaerobes
  • Meropenem has slightly narrower spectrum, but much higher stability
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47
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What is panipenem used in combination w/ and why?

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Betamipron to inhibit dehydropeptidase 1

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48
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What is significant about doripenem?

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  • Supposedly better anti-pseudomonal than meropenem
  • More chemically stable than imipenem
  • Resistant to dehydropeptidase 1 like meropenem
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49
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Which carbapenem is not an anti-pseudomonal?

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Ertapenem

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50
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Why is MRSA resistant to many antibiotics?

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Has beta lactamase, but main reason is presence of special penicillin binding protein PBP 2a

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51
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What does PBP 2a have affinity for?

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All penicillins, carbapenems, and almost all cephalosporins; these are all the organisms MRSA is resistant to

52
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How do antibiotics minimize toxicity to host and maximize toxicity to microorganisms?

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By targeting metabolic processes that are particular to microorganisms and significantly different from those that happen in human cells

53
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Why are most viral infections difficult to treat?

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Viruses mostly exploit host metabolic processes in order to proliferate

54
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What is a plasmid?

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Circular DNA that can be shared among bacteria and often cary antibiotic-resistant genes

55
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Is the protein synthesis machinery of bacterium the same as in humans?

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No

56
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How many of the subunits of a ribosome differ btwn bacterium and humans?

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Both

57
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What is different about the RNA in bacterium compared to humans?

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In bacteria, there is no 5’ methyl guanine cap, so it is not spliced

58
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What is different about transcription btwn bacteria and humans?

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In bacteria, RNA polymerase and other aspects of transcription are different (no introns and no splicing)

59
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Which enzymes involved in DNA synthesis are different btwn bacteria and humans?

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DNA polymerase, DNA gyrase, and topoisomerase

60
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Why do bacteria, yeast, and other single-celled organisms have cell walls?

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Have high concentrations of osmotically active components (proteins, DNA, RNA, carbs) while environment has low concentrations, so this produces huge osmotic pressure across the cell membrane

61
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What do porins do?

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  • Hydrophilic channel, so some antibiotics can travel through this channel
  • Bacteria w/ less porins = less susceptibility to those antibiotics
62
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What are penicillin binding proteins involved in?

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Peptidoglycan synthesis

63
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What is the function of teichoic acids?

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Increase strength of GM+ cell walls; can be bound to lipid bilayer or peptidoglycan

64
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Which 3 characteristics determine what antibiotic therapy should be started?

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1) Is the bacteria sensitive or resistant to the antibiotic in question? (usually don’t have this info)
2) Is the bacterium GM+ or GM-; could be neither (mycoplasma pneumonia or mycobacterium tuberculosis or leprae)
3) Is the organism anaerobic?

65
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What is the most common cause of impetigo?

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Streptococcus pyogenes, but also Staph aureus

66
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What is the most common cause of acute cellulitis?

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Strep pyogenes

67
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What is the most common cause of necrotizing fasciitis?

A

Strep pyogenes

68
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What is the most common cause of folliculitis?

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Staph aureus, sometimes pseudomonas aeruginosa

69
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What is the most common cause of furuncles (boils)?

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Staph aureus

70
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What is the most common cause of carbuncle?

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Staph aureus

71
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Which organism is the major cause of hospital acquired infections?

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

72
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What can pseudomonas aeruginosa cause?

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  • Pneumonia
  • Sepsis (bacteremia)
  • Skin and soft tissue infection
  • UTI’s
73
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Which bacteria have porins?

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Only GM-

74
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Which bacteria have beta-lactamase?

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GM+ and GM-

75
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Which bacteria have penicillin binding proteins?

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GM+ and GM-

76
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Which bacteria have teichoic acids?

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GM+

77
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What makes pseudomonas aeruginosa difficult to treat?

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Porins channels are difficult to penetrate, and also has fewer porin channels in general

78
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What are the most common causes of community-acquired pneumonia?

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  • Haemophilus influenzae (GM-)
  • Strep pneumoniae (GM+)
  • Moraxella catarrhalis (GM-)
  • Atypical pneumonia caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae (*more common) or legionella pneumophila (most common pneumonia seen in community)
79
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What is mycoplasma pneumoniae?

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  • Parasite of respiratory tract
  • Binds to receptors on tracheal epithelium
  • Extracellular and intracellular pathogen
80
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What is NAM attached to in peptidoglycan?

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  • To unnatural peptide L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala

- COOH of NAM connects to peptide via N-alpha amide bond

81
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How are adjacent strands of amino sugars attached in peptidoglycan?

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5x Gly crosslinks adjacent strands via L-Lys and D-Ala (results in L-Lys-Gly-Gly-Gly-Gly-Gly-D-Ala); attached via peptide bonds

82
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What is Parks nucleotide?

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UDP-NAM-L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala

83
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What is transglycosidation and what catalyzes this process?

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  • Attaches NAG to NAM

- Catalyzed by transglycosidase

84
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What is transpeptidation and what catalyzes this process?

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  • Connects Gly chain to D-Ala

- Catalyzed by transpeptidase (a penicillin binding protein)

85
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What digests amino sugar linages?

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Lysozyme

86
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What is the first step of natural cell wall degradation catalyzed by?

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Lytic transglycosylases

87
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How do penicillins work?

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  • By covalently binding to penicillin binding protein transpeptidase b/c it “looks” like terminal D-Ala-D-Ala of peptidoglycan
  • Active site Ser reacts w/ the highly strained lactam ring causing the ring to open and form a covalent enzyme intermediate => almost permanent covalent alkylation of transpeptidase enzyme
88
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Penicillin is considered a ____ inhibitor of transpeptidase

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Covalent non-competitive

89
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What makes a beta-lactam ring more susceptible to hydrolysis than an amide bond?

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  • Amide bonds can undergo resonance, which decreases electrophilicity of carbonyl carbon; beta lactam ring can’t undergo resonance
  • S and N help to withdraw electrons from the carbonyl, further increasing the electrophilic nature of the carbonyl
90
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What is the cause of MRSA’a resistance to nearly all beta-lactam antibiotics?

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Penicillin binding protein 2A

91
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What are some narrow spectrum beta-lactamase sensitive penicillins and what are they used for?

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  • Pen G and Pen V

- Used for strep GM+ (except MSSA and MRSA) and some anaerobes (esp. oral anaerobes)

92
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What are some narrow spectrum beta-lactamase resistant penicillins and what are they used for?

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  • Methicillin, nafcillin, cloxacillin, and dicloxacillin

- GM+ staph aurues (MSSA) but not MRSA

93
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What are some broad spectrum beta-lactamase sensitive aminopenicillins and what are they used for?

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  • Ampicillin and amoxicillin

- Many GM+, some GM- (haemophilus influenzae, neisseria meningitidis, E. coli), and some anaerobes

94
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What are some broad and extended spectrum beta lactamase sensitive anti-pseudomonals and what are they used for?

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  • Ticarcillin and piperacillin

- Many GM+ (except MSSA and MRSA), pseudomonas aeruginosa, some anaerobes, and many GM-

95
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What does the acid instability of beta lactams cause?

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  • Basically no oral absorption (other reasons for no oral absorption also)
  • High amounts of penicillin allergies
96
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How is the beta lactam ring strain relieved?

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Opening the ring (acid or base catalyzed; also catalyzed by beta lactamases)

97
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What effect does the acyl side chain have on the beta lactam ring?

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  • Produces a resonance structure that places a negative charge on the side chain carbonyl O, which makes it a better nucleophile
  • The side chain carbonyl O attacks the beta lactam carbonyl, which is particularly reactive => beta lactam ring opening
98
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What effect does an EW R group have on a beta lactam antibiotic?

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  • Decreases attack on the beta lactam carbonyl, producing less ring opening
  • Confers acid stability
99
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What is significant about penicillamine?

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Reactive and involved in penicillin allergy

100
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What is significant about penillic acid?

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  • Can be formed in gut after oral dosing

- Happens readily w/ Pen G and methicillin, but not w/ amoxicillin or Pen V

101
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What is significant about penicillenic acid?

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  • Can be formed easily over a wide pH range
  • Usually always some present in penicillin
  • Very reactive and involved in allergies to penicillin
102
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Which compounds promote penicillin allergies that are not anaphylactic?

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Penicilloic acid and penicillenic acid

103
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Why should expired pencillins never be used?

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Penicilloic acid and penicillenic acid can naturally accumulate in penicillin powder or in liquid formulations, so this promotes the development of penicillin allergies

104
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Which compound promotes anaphylactic penicillin allergies?

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Penicillamine

105
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Which penicillins are acid stable? What does this mean?

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  • Pen V, ampicillin, amoxicillin

- Orally active

106
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Do acid resistant penicillins have less incidence of allergy?

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No

107
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Why is amoxicillin used more often than ampicillin?

A

Less side effects

108
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What are the 4 methods that bacteria develop resistance to beta lactams?

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  • Increased production of PBP transpeptidase
  • Mutation of PBP transpeptidase that reduces affinity for penicillin (specifically PBP 2a)
  • Transport of penicillin across outer membrane
  • Production of beta lactamases
109
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What do the 4 classes of beta lactamases differ in?

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  • Structure and mechanism
  • Resistance to inhibitors of beta lactamases
  • Spectrum of activity (types of beta lactams hydrolyzed)
  • Organisms that produce these beta lactamases
110
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Where are beta lactamases secreted?

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Into the medium that the bacteria are growing in, so beta lactams are digested in the medium before they reach the bacterium

111
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What is the rate limiting step for beta lactamases?

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Collision of the enzyme w/ beta lactams

112
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What is a part of all beta lactamase resistant penicillins?

A

Aromatic substituent

113
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What is the spectrum of cloxacillin?

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  • Staph aureus (MSSA)
  • Staph epidermidis
  • Strep pyogenes (all GM+)
  • Covers most skin pathogens, so can be used empirically to treat skin infections where MRSA is not suspected
  • No activity against GM-
114
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What is the spectrum of amoxicillin?

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  • GM+ = strep pyogenes, strep pneumoniae, and staph epidermidis
  • Not MSSA or MRSA
  • GM- = E coli, H influenza, N meningitidis, some salmonella, and shigella species
  • Some anaerobes
115
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What is a good antibiotic for neonates and children and why?

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  • Amoxicillin

- Has activity against many of the most common and serious childhood pathogens

116
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What makes pseudomonas resistant to beta lactams?

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  • Low uptake

- Some strains produce beta lactamases

117
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How can an antibiotic cross the outer membrane of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other GM- organisms?

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  • Through the porin

- Trick an active transporter to take it up into the bacterium

118
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How can a beta lactam be modified to pass through the porin of a GM- bacteria?

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Make the R group very hydrophilic (ex: COOH or ureido group) since the porin is an aqueous channel

119
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What do bacteria need from the environment and how do they get it?

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  • Need iron from the environment
  • Use short peptides call siderophores to chelate iron, and then a special set of active transporters take up the iron-siderophore complex
120
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How can an anti-pseudomonal trick an active transporter to take it up into the bacterium?

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Catechol-substituted cephalosporins have an R group that mimics the catechol structure of siderophores

121
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What is ticarcillin and what is it normally given w/ and why?

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  • Anti-pseudomonal

- Given w/ clavulanic acid b/c it is beta lactamase sensitive

122
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What is the activity of ticarcillin?

A
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Most GM- and many GM+ (except staph aureus)
  • Many anaerobic bacteria
123
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Is ticarcillin or piparcillin more broad spectrum against GM-?

A

Piparcillin

124
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All cephalosporins are based on the structure of _____

A

Cephalosporin C

125
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How do cephalosporins differ from penicillins w/ respect to activity?

A

Cephalosporins have increase GM- activity and similar GM+ activity, so are more broad spectrum

126
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What effect do cephalosporins have on transpeptidase enzymes?

A

Nearly permanently inactivate them

127
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What is important about the fact that beta lactams almost permanently covalently modify PBP transpeptidase enzymes?

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This causes a post-antibiotic effect (there is still activity of penicillins even after 5x their half-life)

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