Across
- 3. ____ drugs are produced entirely by chemical reactions
- 4. bacteria may _____ digest the drug they have been treated with
- 8. ____ replicate/concentrate at the site of infection, whereas antibiotics are not centralized
- 12. _____ chemotherapy is the use of drugs to control infection
- 14. bacteria in ____ behave differently than when they are free-living; antibiotics often cannot penetrate ____
- 16. the goal of antimicrobial ____ is to administer a drug to an infected person that destroys the infective agent without harming the host's cells
- 17. _____ spectrum refers to antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial types
- 18. this is the abbreviation for the smallest concentration of drug that visibly inhibits growth
- 20. ___ dilution is more sensitive and quantitative than the kirby-bauer test; allows for the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration
- 21. bacteria may ___ out the drug they have been treated with
Down
- 1. the bacteriophage enzymes that lyse/kill bacteria
- 2. ____ cells are eukaryotic, present special problems in drug treatment; drugs designed to act on prokaryotes are ineffective against eukaryotes
- 3. drug _____ tests involve exposing a pure culture of the microbe to several different drugs and observing the effects of the drugs on growth
- 5. ___ TI indicates that the effective dose is close to the toxic dose, making it a more risky treatment
- 6. all-inclusive term for any antimicrobial drug, regardless of its origin
- 7. ___ index is the ratio of the dose of the drug that is toxic to humans compared to its minimum effective dosage
- 9. substances produced by the natural metabolic processes of some microorganisms that can inhibit or destroy other microorganisms
- 10. viruses may alter their ____ proteins, to avoid interaction with a protein targeting a drug
- 11. ____ spectrum refers to antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types
- 13. ____ drugs are chemically modified in the laboratory after being isolated from natural resources
- 15. antimicrobial drug ____ is an adaptive response in which microorganisms begin to tolerate an amount of drug that would normally be inhibitory; can be from within as well as acquired
- 19. targeting the interruption of ____ sensing pathways has been a strategy to treat biofilms
