Narrow Spectrum Antimicrobials - ANSWERSOnly work against a few species of microorgannisms
Broad Spectrum Antimicrobials - ANSWERSActive against a wide variety of microorganisms
Bactericidal - ANSWERSkills the bacteria or microorganism
Bacteriostatic - ANSWERSslows the replication of the organism so the body's immune system can kill the
organism
Concentration Dependent Killeres - ANSWERSneed to have a certain level of medication in the blood to
kill the microorganism
Trough - ANSWERSLowest or minimum amount of medication in body
Peak - ANSWERSmaximum amount of the medication is in the body above therapeutic levels
Time Dependent Killers - ANSWERSkills microorganism over a set time frame
Drug resistance - ANSWERSOccurs when a microorganism becomes less susceptible or completely
unresponsive to an antimicrobial or multiple antimicrobials
Delaying resistance - ANSWERSuse antimicrobials ONLY when needed
Suprainfection - ANSWERSsecondary infection that develops during treatment of a primary infection
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