L37 Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Descripción

• Explain what is meant by the term “selective toxicity”. • Identify 5 bacterial cell components targeted by different classes of antibiotics. • Describe some of the mechanisms of the development of antibiotic resistance and discuss how to reduce its development. • Outline the source, mode of action, importance and factors potentially compromising the successful application of penicillin to the control of bacterial infections.
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Pregunta 1

Pregunta
Which of these best describes selective toxicity?
Respuesta
  • The toxicity of a treatment of antibiotics gauged by effect on the host cells.
  • The property of antibiotics that allow them to kill microbial cells but not the host cells.
  • The property of a drug meaning they affect only some cells and not other. One which kills microbial cells but not host cells is an ideal antibiotic.

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
How does penicillin work?
Respuesta
  • It interferes with the formation of the peptidoglycan wall by inhibiting formation of cross links.
  • It mimics the enzyme which forms the polyglycopeptides preventing the NAG NAM chain from forming.

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
What are five ways bacteria can be targeted by microbes?
Respuesta
  • Inhibition of cell wall synthesis
  • Inhibition of protein synthesis
  • Disruption of cytoplasmic membrane
  • Inhibition of general metabolic pathway
  • Inhibition of DNA/RNA synthesis
  • Degradation of intracellular enzymes
  • Opsonisation of flagella

Pregunta 4

Pregunta
Antibiotic resistance will be conferred on the [blank_start]survivors[blank_end] of an antibiotic, hence the microbe has a [blank_start]selection pressure[blank_end] to evolve to resist antibiotics. An example of this is enzyme [blank_start]beta-lactamase[blank_end] produced by some microbes, which breaks and disables the [blank_start]lactam[blank_end] ring of penicillin. Microbial resistance can also be passed on by [blank_start]vertical or horizontal[blank_end] gene transfer.
Respuesta
  • survivors
  • selection pressure
  • beta-lactamase
  • lactam
  • vertical or horizontal

Pregunta 5

Pregunta
Which of these is not a method to reduce the development of antibiotic resistance?
Respuesta
  • Decrease antibiotic utilisation
  • Combination therapy
  • Improve diagnostics
  • Identify new targets
  • Identify new antibiotics
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