We learning Pseudomonas

Drugs

100

What penicillin type Beta-lactmase inhibitor treats Pseudomonas ?

Piperacillin/Tazo

200

What antibiotic group of DNA inhibitors treats pseudomonas ?

Fluoroquinolone w exceptions 

300

What 4th generation cephalasporin antibiotic treats pseudomonas ?

Cefepime

400

What group of protein synthesis inhibitors treat pseudomonas ?

Aminoglycosides

500

Which antibiotic group of beta-lactams are used to treat pseudomonas ?

Carbapenems 

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100

What is the full name of pseudomonas bacteria ?

Pseudomonas aueruginosa 

200

Where are majority of the infections acquired ?

Hospitals 

300

What is the shape of pseudomonas bacteria ?

Bacilli (rod)

400

IS pseudomonas gram negative or gram postiive ?

Gram negative 

500

Pseudomonas has a high resistance to what antibiotics ?

Nearly all of them, this is a multidrug resistant bacteria.

BONUS

100

What is the 3rd generation cephalosporin that treats pseudomonas ?

Ceftazidime

200

There is always an exception: Which carbapenem does not treat pseudomonas ?

ertapenem

300

How do fluorquinolones treat pseudomonas ? MOA?

DNA gyrase & topisomerase IV are inhibited causing cell death 

400

There is always an exception: which fluoroquinolone does NOT treat pseudomonas ?

Moxifloxacin 

500

Majority of the antibiotics uses what MOA to treat pseudomonas. HINT akit if them are Beta-lactams 

Inhibits the cell wall synthesis