Spectrum of Activity(Target Organisms)

Question 1

What target organisms does PCN G cover?

Answer 1

none

Question 2

What target organisms does Naficillin cover?

Answer 2

MSSA

Question 3

What target organisms does Ampicillin cover?

Answer 3

none

Question 4

What target organisms does Augmentin/Unasyn cover?

Answer 4

MSSA and BDA

Question 5

What target organisms does Ticarcillin cover?

Answer 5

Pseudomonas

Question 6

What target organisms does Piperacillin cover?

Answer 6

Pseudomonas

BDA

Question 7

What target organisms does Zosyn cover?

Answer 7

MSSA
Pseduomonas
BDA

Question 8

what drugs do not cover Gram + aerobes at all!!!

Answer 8

Aztreonam

Colisitn (Polymyxins)

Question 9

what drugs do not cover aerobes at all!!!!

Answer 9

Metronidazole

Question 10

what drugs do not cover Gram - aerobes at all!!!

Answer 10

Vanc
Gram + Agents…
Clindaymycin

Question 11

What target organisms do Carbapenems cover?

Answer 11

MSSA
Pseudomonas (NOT ertapenem though)
BDA

Question 12

What target organisms does Aztreonam cover?

Answer 12

Pseudomonas

NO GRAM + AEROBES AT ALL!

Question 13

What target organisms do 1st gen cephs cover?

Answer 13

MSSA

Question 14

What target organisms do 2nd gen cephs cover?

Answer 14

MSSA

BDA (Cephamycins)

Question 15

what drugs are cephamycins

Answer 15

cefoxitin
cefotetan
cemetazole

Question 16

What target organisms do 3rd gen cephs cover?

Answer 16

PRSP(Ceftriaxone)
MSSA (Ceftriaxone)

Pseudomonas (Ceftazidime)

Question 17

What target organisms does the 4th gen cephs cover?

Answer 17

PRSP
MSSA
Pseudomonas

Question 18

what drug is 4th gen ceph

Answer 18

cefepime

Question 19

what drug is anti MRSA ceph

Answer 19

ceftaroline

Question 20

What target organisms does the Anti-MRSA cephs cover?

Answer 20

PRSP
MSSA
MRSA

Question 21

What target organisms do the combo cephs cover?

Answer 21

Pseudomonas only

Question 22

What target organisms does Ciprofloxacin cover?

Answer 22

MSSA
Pseudomonas
Legionella

Question 23

What target organisms do the other FQs cover?

Answer 23

PRSP
MSSA
MRSA (only Dela)
Pseudomonas (NOT Moxi)
Legionella

Question 24

What target organisms does the macrolides?

Answer 24

MSSA

legionella

Question 25

What target organisms do Aminoglycosides cover?

Answer 25

MSSA (NOT alone – add a wall agent)
MRSA (NOT alone – add a wall agent)
Pseudomonas

Question 26

What target organisms does Vanc cover?

Answer 26

PRSP
MSSA
MRSA
C.Diff - PO
(NO GRAM - BUGS AT ALL)

Question 27

What target organisms do the Gram + agents cover?

Answer 27

PRSP
VRE
MSSA
MRSA
(NO GRAM - BUGS AT ALL)

Question 28

What target organisms do tetracyclines cover?

Answer 28

MSSA
MRSA
Legionella

Question 29

What target organisms does Tigecycline cover?

Answer 29

MSSA
MRSA
BDA

Question 30

What target organisms does SMX-TMP cover?

Answer 30

MSSA

MRSA

Question 31

What target organisms do Polymyxins cover?

Answer 31

Pseudomonas

NO GRAM + BUGS AT ALL

Question 32

What target organisms does Clindamycin cover?

Answer 32

MSSA
MRSA
BDA
(NO GRAM - BUGS AT ALL)

Question 33

What target organisms does Metronidazole cover?

Answer 33

BDA

C.Diff

Question 34

what drugs cover PRSP?

Answer 34

3rd (Ceftriaxone) and 4th gen cephs and Anti-MRSA ceph

Levo, Moxi, Dela

Vanc and Gram + agents

Question 35

what drugs cover VRE

Answer 35

Gram + drugs

(Synercid, Linezolid, Tedizolid, Daptomycin—DONT USE IN PNEUMONIA, -vancins

Question 36

what drugs cover MRSA

Answer 36

Ceftaroline (anti-MRSA ceph)
Delafloxacin
AGs
Vanc
Gram + agents
tetracycline
Tigecycline
Bactrim
Clindamycin

Question 37

what drugs DO NOT cover MRSA

Answer 37

All PCNs do not
all cephs do not (except Anti-MRSA)
Macrolides do not
Colistins do not
Metronidazole does not

Question 38

what drugs cover legionella

Answer 38

Macrolides
FQS
Tetracyclines

Question 39

what drugs cover C.Diff

Answer 39

Vanc - ORAL

Metronidazole