Across
- 1. use has origins in the past, but was sidelined due to the discovery and effectiveness of antibiotics
- 3. many antiviral drugs end in this ‘term’
- 4. the use of drugs to control infection
- 7. name for staphylococcus aureus
- 10. use of a drug to prevent infection of a person at risk
- 12. drugs that are chemically modified in the laboratory after being isolated from natural sources
- 13. drugs produced entirely by chemical reactions
- 14. antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial types
- 15. system formed in bacteria that can be very specific cuts and resistance genes (dsDNA) to deactivate them
Down
- 2. an adaptive response in which microorganisms begin to tolerate an amount of drug that would normally be inhibitory
- 5. are originally metabolic products of bacteria and fungi
- 6. antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types
- 8. all inclusive term for any antimicrobial drug, regardless of its origin
- 9. are eukaryotic, present special problems in drug treatment
- 11. are the bacteriophage enzymes that lyse/kill bacteria
