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Fluoroquinolones are _____ synthesis inhibitors

Which antibiotics can result in tendonitis, tendon rupture, and cartilage damage?_____

What class of drugs inhibits prokaryotic topoisomerase II and topoisomerase IV? _____

Antacids can affect _____ of other drugs by altering gastric and urinary pH

Fluoroquinolones can prolong the _____, predisposing to Torsades de pointes

What drugs are used in the empiric treatment of pyelonephritis?_____

Fluoroquinolones are contraindicated in the following groups due to damage to _____- people > 60 years old- patients taking prednisone

_____-toxicity is associated with Isoniazid use

Clavulanic acid (clavulanate) is a suicide β-lactamase inhibitor that is combined with the aminopenicillin _____ (Augmentin) or the antipseudomonal _____

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β-lactam antibiotics inhibit what family of enzymes involved in cell wall synthesis? _____

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Flashcard 1: Fluoroquinolones are _____ synthesis inhibitors

Answer: nucleic acid

Flashcard 2: Which antibiotics can result in tendonitis, tendon rupture, and cartilage damage?_____

Answer: Fluoroquinolones

Flashcard 3: What class of drugs inhibits prokaryotic topoisomerase II and topoisomerase IV? _____

Answer: fluoroquinolones

Flashcard 4: Antacids can affect _____ of other drugs by altering gastric and urinary pH

Answer: bioavailability

Flashcard 5: Fluoroquinolones can prolong the _____, predisposing to Torsades de pointes

Answer: QT interval

Flashcard 6: What drugs are used in the empiric treatment of pyelonephritis?_____

Answer: Fluoroquinolones

Flashcard 7: Fluoroquinolones are contraindicated in the following groups due to damage to _____- people > 60 years old- patients taking prednisone

Answer: tendons

Flashcard 8: _____-toxicity is associated with Isoniazid use

Answer: Hepato

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Flashcard 9: Clavulanic acid (clavulanate) is a suicide β-lactamase inhibitor that is combined with the aminopenicillin _ (Augmentin) or the antipseudomonal _

Answer: amoxicillin

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Flashcard 10: β-lactam antibiotics inhibit what family of enzymes involved in cell wall synthesis? _____

Answer: Penicillin binding protein transpeptidases

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