Unit 2- Ch. 10 Vocab Soft Chalk

Administer a drug to an infected person which destroys the infective agent without harming the host’s cells is the goal of __________________________.

Antimicrobial chemotherapy

Substances produced by some microorganisms that can inhibit or destroy other microorganisms (generally used for drugs targeting bacteria) are known as _______________________.

Antibiotics

Drugs that are chemically modified in the laboratory after being isolated from natural sources are known as ___________________.

Semisynthetic drugs

_______________________ are drugs produced entirely in the lab.

Synthetic drugs

Antimicrobials effective against a limited array of microbial types are ______________________ antimicrobials.

Narrow-spectrum

_______________________ are antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial types.

Broad-spectrum

________________________ means a drug should kill or inhibit microbial cells without damaging host tissues.

Selective toxicity

The ratio of the dose of the drug that is toxic to humans as compared to its minimum effective (therapeutic) dose is known as the ___________________.

Therapeutic index

When antimicrobial therapy destroys beneficial resident species, other microbes that were once in small numbers begin to overgrow and cause what is known as a _______________________.

Superinfection

A fungal infection is known as a __________________.

Mycosis