Antimicrobial Agents — Flashcards

_____ is inactivated by alveolar surfactant and thus cannot be used to treat pneumonia (antibiotic)

Interferon _____ may be used in the treatment of hepatitis B and C infections

What is the treatment for Neisseria meningitidis?_____ or Penicillin G

_____ vaccine for yellow fever is a live attenuated vaccine derived from Asibi strain, administered subcutaneously

_____ include ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftazidime

Amphotericin B or _____ (drug class) can be used for systemic candidal infections

Chloramphenicol is used to treat _____ caused by Strep pneumoniae, H. influenzae and Neisseria meningitidis

Aminopenicillins (amoxicillin and ampicillin) can treat pneumonia caused by _____ and H. influenzae.

_____ mutation (associated with the use of lamivudine or emtricitabine) restores zidovudine susceptibility in zidovudine-resistant HIV.

To remember the protein synthesis inhibiting antibiotics, the pneumonia "Buy AT 30, CCEL at 50" is used30S inhibitors:_____Tetracyclines (aminoacyl-tRNA binding)50S inhibitors:Chloramphenicol (peptidyltransferase)Clindamycin (translocation)Erythromycin (macrolides) (translocation)Linezolid (initiation complex)