Across
- 2. a type of antibiotic derived from Penicillium fungi
- 3. microscopic organism, usually virus, bacterium, or fungus
- 5. semisynthetic antibiotic that has fallen out of use because of many bacteria gaining resistance to its effects
- 8. an infection caused by bacteria called Clostridium tetani
- 9. a potentially serious infectious disease that mainly affects the lungs.
- 12. a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
- 14. beta-lactam antimicrobials used to manage a wide range of infections from gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
- 15. class of antibiotic that includes erythromycin, roxithromycin, azithromycin and clarithromycin
Down
- 1. antibacterial, inhibits folic acid synthesis
- 4. a class of antibiotics approved to treat or prevent certain bacterial infections
- 6. an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medication
- 7. ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell
- 10. methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, mutated skin rash that can become deadly with time
- 11. genus of rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae
- 13. infection caused by a sexually transmitted bacterium that infects both males and females