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1
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What are 3 physical antimicrobial techniques used?

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heat, radiation, and filtration

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What are 3 chemical antimicrobial techniques used?

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disinfectants, antisceptics, and antimicrobials

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What are antibiotics?

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a chemical substance produced by a bacterium that kills/inhibits the growth of another bacterium

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What are antisceptics?

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kills microbial cells but not eukaryotic cells

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Which type of antimicrobial technique can damage eurkaryotic cells?

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disinfectants

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6
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What does bacteriostatic mean?

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inhibits growth of bacteria

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What does bacteriocidal mean?

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kills bacterium

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What does bacteriolytic mean?

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lyses bacterium

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9
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Who and when was penicillin discovered?

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Alexander fleming, 1928

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10
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What year was penicillin started to be used medically?

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1945

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Who developed the concept of toxicity?

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Paul Erlich

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12
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What was the cause in the increase of life expectancy between 1830 and 1900?

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the Golden Age of Microbiology

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13
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What is sulfanilamide?

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analog of PAD (component of folic acid)

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14
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How does sulfanilamide work at a molecular level?

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inhibits fold acid synthesis (competitive inhibition) in bacteria

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How do eukaryotic cells and bacterial cells get folic acid?

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bacteria needs to make them because can’t uptake it, eukaryotic uptakes it from environment

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What is the most common group of antibiotics?

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cephalosporin and penicillin

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What antibiotic group do cephalosporin and penicillin belong to?

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beta-lactam antibiotics

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18
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What are the 3 things that limit the efficacy of antimicrobial drugs?

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speed of action, sensitivity of target, side effects

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In terms of speed of action, why do some antibiotics have a weaker or faster effect than other antibiotics?

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availibility of target, location of target, and mode of taking the antibiotic or the body organ comes into play || pills take a longer time to take effect

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What are broad-spectrum of antibiotics?

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act on broad-spectrum type of targets bacterial species; ie: targets any bacteria with a glycine interbridge (= includes all gram+ species)

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What are narrow-spectrum of antibiotics?

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antibiotic that targets only one type of species

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If you are a doctor prescribing a patient antibiotics without having much time to come up with a diagnostic, which type of antibiotic will you prescribe: broad or narrow?

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broad = don’t know what specifically is going on

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23
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How are antibiotics selective?

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only target prokaryotic cell and not eukaryotic cells

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Which type of antibiotic is best used for an infection? Bacteriocidal or bacteriostatic and why?

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depends on the situation but it is safer to use bacteriostatic for those pathogens that have endotoxins (if lysed = endotoxins are released)

25
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What is an example of antibiotic selectivity that reduces the pathogen’s toxicity to the host?

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inhibiting metabolic that are only present in microbes

26
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What are 3 methods bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?

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synthesis of an enzyme that breaks down antibitoic || prevent antibiotic from accessing target site || modification of the target site

27
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3 ways how bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics?

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over-usage of an antibiotic or non-compliance; over-usage in agriculture; over prescription (use of antibiotics when no need to)

28
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How can non-compliance with a antibiotic medication lead to antibiotic resistance?

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may not kill ALL pathogens inside = will create mutations against antibiotic and pass on that resistance gene via plasmids to other bacterium or new progeny

29
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What are the 3 main types of super-bugs?

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Clostridium difficile, Neisseria gonnhorae, CP-resistent enterobacteriaceae

30
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What is clostridium difficile?

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opportunistic pathogen found in healthy microbiota but with over-usage of antibiotics = kill other microbes = C.diff will take over and make you sick

31
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What are the 4 types of antibiotics?

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B-lactam antibiotics, vancomycin, quinolones, antiribosomal antibiotics

32
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What are beta-lactam antibiotics?

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consists of a beta-lactam ring structure where the variation happens at the n-acyl group

33
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What type of affect will beta-lactam antibiotics on a bacterial species? (bacteriostatic, bacteriolytic, or bacteriocidal)

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bacteriocidal

34
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Which type of target sensitivity do beta-lactam antibiotics have?

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broad-spectrum

35
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What is Penicillin G?

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first antibiotic by FLeming, works better on Gram+ than on Gram–

36
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What are 3 examples of beta-lactam antibiotics?

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penicillin, cephalosporins, cephamycins

37
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Why doesn’t penicillin work well with gram– bacteria?

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outer-membrane doesn’t allow antibiotic to penetrate through it

38
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What type of penicillin-alternative is used for gram– bacteria?

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ampicillin

39
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What is autolysin?

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gene/protein that degrades peptidoglycan cell wall

40
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How can a penicillin be bacteriostatic?

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If the bacteria doesn’t have the gene for autolysin = cell wall synthesis will only be affected

41
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Why is penicillin considered a bacteriocidal antibiotic?

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inhibits penicillin-binding proteind (peptidases) new synthesis of cell wall and (if autolysin is present) begins to degrade current cell wall –> leads to bacterial cells to lyse

42
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What are beta-lactamases?

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enzymes produced by pathogens that reduce permeability across outer-membrane = alters penicillin-binding proteins || breaks down b-lactam antibiotics

43
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What is vancomycin?

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glycopeptide antibiotic

44
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What type of affect will vancomycin antibiotics on a bacterial species? (bacteriostatic, bacteriolytic, or bacteriocidal) How?

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bacteriostatic = blocks synthesis of cell wall

45
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Why can’t you tale vancomycin orally?

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protein-based = cannot take as a pill

46
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What does vancomyin target? In what type of bacteria and how?

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D-alanine peptide blocks incorportation of another sugar chain onto growing polypeptide; only in gram+

47
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What is vancomycin used to treat?

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MRSA infections

48
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How can we use protein-based antibiotics?

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as a cream

49
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How does bacteria build up resistance to vancomycin?

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alters peptide sequence in peptidoglycan so vancomycin doesn’t bind to it

50
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What are quinolones?

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inhibit the action of bacterial DNA gyrase topoisomerase = breakdown of bacterial DNA

51
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What are topoisomerases?

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makes DNA more compact

52
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What happens when you inhibit topoisomerase action?

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cause DNA to breakdown

53
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What type of effect will quinolone antibiotics on a bacterial species? (bacteriostatic, bacteriolytic, or bacteriocidal) How?

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bacteriolytic

54
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What are 2 ways bacteria can become resistant to quionolones?

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change in topoisomerase or DNA gyrase or bacterium can develop a mechanism by removing antibiotic from the cytoplasm via efflux pump and pump it out into environment

55
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Which type of target sensitivity do anti-ribosomal antibiotics have?

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broad-spectrum

56
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What are 3 examples of anti-ribosomal antibiotics?

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tetracycline, erythromycin, streptomycin

57
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What do anti-ribosomal antibiotics bind to?

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30S or 50S ribosomal subunit

58
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What are 3 methods bacterial species can be resistant to anti-ribosomal antibiotics?

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reducing cell envelope permeability, modifying target, excretion of antibiotic from bacterial cytoplasm

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