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What is the standard prophylactic regimen for a nonallergic adult patient?
2 g Amoxicillin one hour before procedure
What is the standard prophylactic regimen for a nonallergic children patient?
50 mg Amoxicillin one hour before procedure
What antibiotics are used when a patient has an allergy to Amoxicillin?
Clindamycin
Cephalexin
Azithromycin
What antibiotic can be used to treat a periapical abscess in a patient who has a history of hypersensitivity to penicillin?
Azithromycin
What is the standard regimen for Clindamycin in adults?
600 mg 1 hour prior to treatment
What is the standard regimen for Clindamycin in children?
20 mg 1 hour prior to treatment
What is the standard regimen for Cephalexin in adults?
2 g 1 hour prior to treatment
What is the standard regimen for Cephalexin in children?
50 mg 1 hour prior to treatment
What is the standard regimen for Azithromycin in adults?
500 mg 1 hour prior to treatment
What is the standard regimen for Azithromycin in children?
15 mg 1 hour prior to treatment
An infection, usually of the oral cavity or vagina which is caused by the candida species which causes an inflammatory, pruritic infection.
Candidiasis
What is the most likely condition to predispose a patient to candidiasis?
Immune deficiency disorder
What are the two antifungal medications that are used as swish and swallow treatments for candidiasis?
Nyastatin and Clotrimazole
What drugs are included in the Penicillin family?
Penicillin VK
Amoxicillin
Amoxicillin/Clavulanate
Ampicillin
What drug inhibits cell wall synthesis, is bactericidal and has hypersensitivty as its adverse effect?
Penicillins
Cephalosporins
What drugs are included in the Cephalosponis family?
Cephalexin (Keflex)
Cefalcor (Ceclor)
Clindamycin
What drug inhibits 50S ribosomes, is bacteriostatic and has pseudomembranous colitis as its adverse effect?
Clindamycin
What drugs are included in the Macrolides family?
Azithromycin (Z-Pack)
Clarithromycin (Biaxin)
Erythromycin
What family of drugs inhibits the 50S ribosomes and is bacteriostatic with no generalized significant adverse effects?
Macrolides
Tetracyclines
What drugs have an adverse effect that includes GI hypersensitivity?
Clarithromycin (Biaxin)
Erythromycin
What drugs are included in the Tetracycline family?
Tetracycline
Doxycycline (Vibramycin)
Minocycline (Minocin)
What drug in the tetracycline family is susceptible to superinfections as its adverse effect?
Tetracycline
What drugs are included in the Aminoglycosides family?
Streptomycin
Gentamycin
What family of drugs inhibits the 30S ribosomes is bactericidal, and is associated with ototoxicity, and nephrotoxicity as its adverse effects?
Aminoglycosides
What drug inhibits DNA, is bactericidal and has side effects of nausea and headache?
Ciprofloxacin (Cipro)
What drug inhibits cell wall synthesis is bactericidal and has the side effect of nephrotoxicity?
Bacitracin
What drug inhibits 50S ribosomes is bacteriostatic and has blood disorders as an adverse effect?
Chloramphenicol
What drug is in the cephalosporin family that is considered a broad spectrum antibiotic?
Cefaclor
This class of antibiotics behave like penicillin in that they affect the bacterial cell wall during cell division such that closure does not occur.
Cephalosporin
What is the generational progression of Cephalosporins characterized by?
Broadening action against gram-negative and decreased activity against gram-positive
What are the first generation cephalosporins?
Cephalexin (Keflex)
Cephradine (Velosef)
Cefadroxil (Duricef)
Cefazolin (Ancef)
What are the second generation cephalosporins?
Cefaclor (Ceclor)
Cefuroxime (Ceftin)
Cefoxitin (Mefoxin)
What are the third generation cephalosporins?
Cefixime (Suprax)
Cefoperazone (Cefobid)
What is the fourth generation cephalosporin?
Cefepime (Maxipime)
What percentage of individuals expressing allergy to the penicillin family of antibiotics will have cross allergenicity to the cephalosporins?
10%
What are the antibiotic agents that affect bacterial DNA?
Quinolone family (Ciprofloxacin)
Metronidazole (Flagyl)
What antibiotic agents interfere with bacterial metabolic pathways?
Sulfonamides
What two antibiotics are usually prescribed in the treatment of Rickettsial diseases?
Tetracycline
Chloramphenicol
Small, gram-negative, aerobic, coccobacilliary bacteria that are obligate intracellular parasites, which contain both RNA and DNA and results from insect bites.
Rickettsia
What is the target cell for all rickettsiae?
Endothelial Capillaries
Small blood vessels
What is in the Spotted fever groups of rickettsiae?
Rocky Mountain Spotted fever
Queensland tick fever
Boutonneuse Fever, kenya tick fever
Siberian Tick fever
Rickettsialpox
What is in the Typhus group of rickettsiae?
Louse-borne typhus (epidemic typhus)
Murine typhus (endemic typhys)
Scrub typhus
Q Fever
Which penicillin is prescribed primarily in the treatment of severe penicillinase-producing staphylococcal infections?
Methicillin
Produced by certain bacteria that render penicillin inactive (some strains of staphylococci).
Penicillinase
Penicillin inhibits the terminal step in what?
Peptidoglycan synthesis
Which antibiotic is not only effective against most Staph., aerobic and anaerobic Strep., but is most effective in treating infections due to bacteroides species?
Clindamycin
What causes the adverse side effects of clindamycin usage?
Overgrowth of Clostridium difficile bacteria
An antibiotic that is bacteriostatic and is active against most gram-positive and many anaerobic organisms, including the anaerobic gram-negative bacteria bacteroides fragilis.
Clindamycin
Why can Clindamycin be safely given to patients that are allergic to penicillins?
No cross allergenicity
What is the major sterol of fungal membranes?
Ergesterol
What two antifungals are polyene antibiotics which impair ergesterol synthesis?
Amphotericin B
Nystatin
What antifungal medications are used to combat candidiasis in the oral cavity or oropharynx and alters the cell membrane of a fungus?
Clotrimazole (Mycolex Troche)
Nystatin (Mycostatin)
What antifungal medications combat the cutaneous and mucocutaneous candidiasis, and alters the cell membrane of the fungus?
Amphotericin-B (Fungizone)
Ketoconazole (Nizoral)
Nystatin (Mycostatin)
What antifungals are used to combat oral, esophageal, oropharyngeal candidiasis which attacks the fungus by altering the cell membrane?
Fluconazole (Diflucan)
Ketoconazole (Nizoral)
What antifungal medication is used to treat systemic Candidiasis and is administered through IV injection?
Amphotericin-B
What is associated with systemic amphotericin-B?
High incidence of kidney toxicity
Drugs that affect cell membrane permeability, causing leakage of cellular constituents, which leads to the death of the cell
Antifungal drugs