ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS AND ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE ACTUAL FINAL EXAM

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ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS AND ANTIBIOTIC
RESISTANCE ACTUAL FINAL EXAM


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Defined as use of a substance that will selectively
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eliminate a pathogen but not harm the host.

Substances that interfere with the growth/health of
Antimicrobial drugs
microbes within a host, usually designed to kill them.

A substance produced by a microbe that, in small
Antibiotic
amounts, inhibits or kills another microbe.

The process of killing harmful microbes without
Selective Toxicity
damaging the host.

Bactericidal Antimicrobials that kill microbes directly.

Bacteriostatic Antimicrobials that prevent microbes from growing.

Broad spectrum
antibiotics

Narrow spectrum Inhibition of protein synthesis
antibiotics


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Inhibition of cell wall
synthesis

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