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Sinoe medical association

 

PHARMACOLOGY: USMLE QUESTIONS

 

1/ PENICILLIN:      PENI G [IV FORM], PENI V ORAL

 

MECHANISM:        BINDS PENICILLIN -BINDING PROTEINS

                  BLOCKS TRANSPEPTIDASE CROSSLINKING  OF CELL WALL

                  ACTIVATES AUTOLYTIC ENZ

CLINICAL USE :      BACTERICIDALFOR :       ***GRAM POSITIVE COCCI

                                          ***GRAM POSITIVE RODS

                                          ***GRAM NEGATIVE COCCI

                                          ***SPIROCHETES.

TOXICITY :        HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS.

 


METHICILLIN, NAFCILLIN, DICLOXACILLIN:

MECHANISM:        SAME AS PENI.

                  NARROW SPECTRUM,PENICILLINASE RESISTANT BECAUSE OF BULKIER R GROUP

 

CLINICAL USE :      STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS.

 

TOXICITY:         HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS

                  METHICILLIN : RENAL DAMAGE.

 


AMPICILLIN ,AMOXICILLIN:

MECHANISM:        SAME AS PENI

                  WIDER SPECTRUM ,PENICILLINASE SENSITIVE.

                  COMBIN WITH : CLAVULANIC ACID [PENICILLINASE] INHIBITOR TO ENHANCE SPECTRUM

 

CLINICAL USE:       EXTENDED SPECTRUM PENICILLIN

                  MICROBES AND GRAM NEGATIVE RODS:      ***ECHERICHIA COLI

                                                      ***PROTEUS MIRABILIS

                                                      ***HEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE

 

TOXICITY:         HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS

                  AMPICILLIN : RASH

 


CARBENICILLIN,   TICARCILLIN:

MECHANISM:        SAME AS PENI,EXTENDED SPECTRUM

 

CLINICAL USE :      PSEUDOMONAS SPECIES

                  GRAM NEGATIVE RODS

 

TOXICITY :        HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS.

 

penicillins:inhibit of cell wall synthesis

erythromycin:action on 50s ribosomal subunit

rifampin:inhibition of mRNA synthesis

amphotericin b:alteration of cell membrane function

quinolones:inhibition of dna synthesis