The most common treatment for these infections, caused by Staphylococcus aureus is the antibiotics. There are many kinds of antibiotics using in the modern days, but the first kind of antibiotic being introduced for treating Staphylococcus aureus was Penicillin in 1943. This kind of antibiotic stops the formation of peptidoglycan cross-linkages that makes the bacterial cell well stronger. This eventually makes the cell wall formation and degradation become imbalanced, consequently lead to the cell to die. Other kinds of antibiotic were quick introduced for treating Staphylococcus as well.
Identify prototype drugs for common antibiotic classifications. Discuss the major adverse effects of common antibiotic drug classes. Select nursing interventions to care for a patient taking an antibiotic. Vocabulary/ Key Drugs: Pathogen Bactericidal Synthesis Super-infection Culture Gram stain Broad spectrum antibiotic Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) report Peak Trough Neurotoxicity Hepatotoxicity Resistance Red-man syndrome Tendonitis Clostridium difficile Resistant Susceptible Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) Vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) penicillin G potassium tetracycline (Sumcycin) vancomycin (Vancocin) ciprofloxacin (Cipro) III. Bacteriostatic Normal flora Sensitivity Narrow spectrum antibiotic Pruritus Ototoxicity Nephrotoxicity Oral Contraceptive Hypersensitivity Intermediate cefazolin (Ancef, Kefzol) gentamicin (Garamycin) erythromycin (EES, E-Mycin, Erythrocin) trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Septra) Study Questions: 1.
And i think its super cool to see how far we’ve come since the last century. I mean, it is not that long ago children used to die from a disease like Pneumonia, And easily cured decease today. We have advanced so much in medical technology, that if you sustained a physical injury, and you don’t die immediately, that’s a good chance that you will survive. Of course we can’t performa miracles, but we can do a lot to help people adapt to the situation of being handicapped. The book ‘’Flowers for Algernon’‘ was written in 1958, and at the time considered to be a story of ‘’fact-fiction’’.
Part 1- Dosage (in mg.) a. )Uses for Chloramphenicol The Drug Chloramphenicol, though no longer a commonly prescribed medication, is very successful for the treatment of a wide range of infections. Chloramphenicol is classified as a broad spectrum antibiotic. This medication works well against gram-positive, as well as gram-negative organisms, interfering with the process of protein synthesis, the process essential for bacterial growth Chloramphenicol was once considered the “drug of choice” by physicians, used to treat everything from the simple throat infection to the common flu. This is not the case anymore.
Instead medical researchers have developed targeted chemotherapy to better treat cancer without damaging healthy sections of the body. These methods include isolated infusion and targeted delivery mechanisms. Because scientists often call these molecules “molecular targets”, targeted cancer therapies are sometimes called molecularly targeted drugs (Avendano, C). Although controversial because of the
Should I get my child vaccinated Vaccines are biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins (4.) This agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent, destroy it, and remember it. So if the immune system sees this type of agent again it will have a better chance at killing it. The first vaccinations started in the 18th century by Edward Jenner, he had heard that people that had cowpox, which was not to serious for humans, were immune to smallpox.
6. Drug Resistance Tests These must be executed in focused laboratories to measure the receptiveness to antimalarial compounds of parasites collected from a definite patient. Two main laboratory methods are available: In vitro tests: where the parasites are grown in culture in the presence of increasing concentrations of drugs; the drug concentration that inhibits parasite growth is used as
The industrial revolution is changing the course of history for the better and for the worse. One way things got better is technology has and still is improving. There are tons of new inventions and discoveries. The advancements in medicine cause less people to die from disease, so our population is booming! They have invented vaccinations that prevent disease such as cowpox by injecting a small amount of the disease in you so you will not get it in the future!
He discovered chloroform during an experiment with his friends, where he learnt that it could be used to put someone to sleep. Simpson first used chloroform to ease pain during childbirth. However, the dosage had to be perfect, as too much would have killed the patient, but too little would not have put the patient to sleep. Unfortunately, ‘ether’ was still being used up
the microbe produces a substance which is antibiotic and is extracted and then chemically altered to better suit the treating of the disease. Microbes are also genetically altered in laboratories to produce antibiotics to suit the needs of the animal which it will be used to treat. This process is carried out by synthetically producing plasmids for the use of transferring useful genetic information from one microbe to another. There are two types of antibiotics used; bacteriocidal and