Antiinfecti - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Pharmacotherapy of Infectious Diseases • Talking about bacterial infections, most prominent • Antibiotics • They don’t affect viral infections at all • They best most effective approach is prevention i.e. hand washing • Patients may allergies, pregnant, some host factors that will come into play • Antibiotic resistance- acquired, becoming a major proble clinical settings • Organisms to become resistance to the drugs • Bacteria can build up a defense i.e. MRS, VRE, MDRO...