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Antimicrobials (Classifications (3) Antibiotics, 4) Antifungals, 2)…
Antimicrobials
Classifications
3) Antibiotics
4) Antifungals
2) Antivirals
1)Antiprotozoals
5) Antiparasitics
Terms
In Vivo
in life
In Vitro
in glass
MIC
Minimum inhibitory concentration
the lowest amount of drug at which bacterial growth is inhibited
Zones of Inhibition
Kirby-Bauer antibiotic testing (KB testing/disc diffusion anx sensitivity testing)
wafers with abx to test whether bacteria are affected on a a agar plate
A substance that has the capacity to
kill
"-cidal"
inhibit growth
"-static"
combining cidal and static is counter productive because static will work at the growth stage, cidal would render static useless
Creator of Penicillin
Alexander Flaming
Goal of Antimicrobial tx
render microbe helpless while causing no harm to the animal being treated