Across
- 6. While some think it terrible, this agent is the first line therapy for many invasive fungal infections like mucormycosis
- 8. This class of antimicrobials, hailing from the town of Footloose, hates gyrating so much it destroys topoisomerase IV
- 9. Organisms expressing these beta-lactamases exclaim Heck Yes! when empirically treated with ceftriaxone helping them induce resistance.
- 10. This antimicrobial was accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928
- 14. This trojan horse of a beta lactam is often the drug of choice when treating organisms expressing metallo-beta-lactamases
- 15. This practice promotes the responsible use of antimicrobials
Down
- 1. While this agent does a very good job of fending off Aspergillus, its visual side effects can be hard to defend
- 2. This round organism gets lonely, but it looks at the glass half full and likes to congregate with its friends in clusters
- 3. This opportunistic superbug has many intrinsic resistance factors and treating it can be as hard as a crustaceans shell
- 4. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, otherwise known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, would be a fan of this drug resistant organism frequently found fluorescing in hot tubs
- 5. Fidaxomicin may help you see different results when treating this serious intra-abdominal infection common in overuse of antibiotics
- 7. Unlike other members of this antifungals family, this agent shortens the QT interval
- 11. This 5th generation beta lactam has activity against MRSA and is used in treatment of persistently positive MRSA bacteremia
- 12. This rod shaped organism would have loved To Be at Woodstock - an ACID filled, FAST paced environment.
- 13. This agent is one of two 2nd cousins of cephalosporins with good anaerobic activity