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contraceptive pills
What do antibiotics interfere with?
about 1%
What percent is the failure rate of contraceptive pills?
absorption of estrogens
Whhat does intestinal flora reduce?
oral contraceptives
In therapy, what does the antibacterial interact with?
antibiotics do interfere
Do antibiotics mess with birth control pills?
extra contraceptive measures
What should women do if they are using antibiotics and birth control pills?
about 1%
What is birth control failure rate due to antibiotics?
decreased effectiveness
What is one potential issue with drinking alcohol while taking antibiotics?
moderate alcohol consumption is unlikely to interfere with many common antibiotics
Do all antibiotics interact dangerously with alcohol?
there are specific types of antibiotics with which alcohol consumption may cause serious side-effects
Is it OK to drink alcohol while taking any antibiotic?
widespread
How common is the belief that alcohol and antibiotics should never be mixed?
decreased effectiveness of antibiotic therapy
What can alcohol and certain antibiotics cause?
alcohol consumption
What is unlikely to interfere with with many common antibiotics?
alcohol and antibiotics
What belief should bever be mixed widespread?
alcohol
What common drug can reduce antibiotic effectiveness?
specific types of antibiotics with which alcohol consumption may cause serious side-effects
What type of antibiotic is most likely to be a problem with alcohol?
alcohol and antibiotics should never be mixed
Should alcohol be used while on antibiotics?
Intrinsic antibacterial resistance
What is part of hje the make up of bacterial strains?
antibacterial resistance genes
What is exchanged between between bacterial strains or species via plasmids that have this resistance?
antibiotic target
What can be absent from the bacterial genome?
vertical transmission
When does the spread of antibacterial resistance frequently occurs/
mutation
What does some resistance come from?
vertical transmission of mutations
What method of spread can occur in antibacterial resistance?
carry several different resistance genes
What do plasmids do in resistance?
superbugs
What are strains that are resistant to antibiotics called sometimes?
tuberculosis
What was a once almost controlled disease that is coming back do to resistance?
half a million
How many new infections of resistant TB are reported per year?
MDR-TB
What is the acronym used to describe resistant TB?
Inappropriate antibiotic treatment and overuse
What are the two biggest reasons for resistance?
Self prescription
What is a common method of misuse?
overuse of antibiotics
What is an example of bad treatment causing resistance?
prophylactic antibiotics
What is a way of improperly using antibiotics for those traveling?
failure of medical professionals to prescribe the correct dosage
What can happen if a doctor doesn't prescribe to a person's weight and prior use?
failure to take the entire prescribed course of the antibiotic, incorrect dosage and administration, or failure to rest for sufficient recovery
What are 3 other common forms of bad antibiotic practices?
Inappropriate antibiotic treatment
What happens when a cold is treated with antibiotics?
prescribe antibiotics
What do doctors usually do when a patient seems to want antibiotics even though they may not be right?
US Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance
What is the name of a US government agency tasked with trying to stop improper use of antibiotics?
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Which agencies control this task force?
2002
When did the French start going after overuse of antibiotics?
2003
When did the EU ban antibiotics for speeding up growth?
Swann report 1969
What report caused the UK to worry about resistance?
American Society for Microbiology (ASM), American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA)
What 3 US organizations have called for the banning of antibiotics in the production of food animals?
S.742 and H.R. 2562
Name two US bills that want to ban antibiotics in food production?
American Holistic Nurses' Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association (APHA)
What 3 medical associations supported the bills?
animal husbandry
What besides sick people are antibiotics used for?
1977
When was resistance first discussed as a problem in the raising of farm animals?
March 2012
When did a district court order the FDA to stop approving antibiotics in animals?
medicinal folklore
What methods did people use before antibiotics to treat infections?
over 2000 years ago
When were some kinds of antimicrobials first used?
mold and plant materials and extracts
What type of things did Egyptians and Greeks use?
against life
What does antibiosis mean?
Jean Paul Vuillemin
Who came up with the term antibiosis?
mold
What type of organism has been reported to have worked on infections?
Alexander Fleming
Who noticed in a lab the antibacterial characteristics of mold?
penicillin
What mold did Fleming notice had antibacterial properties?
chemotherapy
What did Fleming initially think a good use would be for it?
Prontosil
What was the first available antibiotic?
IG Farben
What company developed Prontosil?
Gerhard Domagk
Who led the team that came up with Prontosil?
1939 Nobel Prize for Medicine
What prize did Domagk get for his work?
tyrothricin
What was the first antibiotic developed from nature?
1939
When was tyrothricin created?
start of World War II,
What also happened in 1939 besides tyrothricin?
Rene Dubos
Who discovered tyrothricin?
wounds and ulcers
What was tyrothricin used for during the war?
1942
When was penicillin G first purified?
1945
When did penicillin G become available outside of military use?
Norman Heatley
Who came up with a way to quickly produce penicillin?
1945
When was the chemical make-up of penicillin discovered?
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Who discovered the chemical structure of penicillin?
immune modulation or augmentation
What do vaccines need to work?
Antibacterial vaccines
What type of vaccines have saved millions of lives?
Vaccines made from attenuated whole cells or lysates
What types of vaccines have been phased out?
Phage therapy
What has been talked about to treat resistant bacteria?
infecting pathogenic bacteria
How have researchers been doing this?
phages will infect "good" bacteria
What is a worry of using phages?
2
How many antibiotics have been created in the last 7 years?
seven
How many are in the pipelin to fight GNB?
2013
What year did the Infectious Disease Society of America say that production of new antibiotics does not keep up with resistance?
FDA
Who regulates antibiotic approval?
economic incentives
What could help to spur pharmaceuticals to make new antibiotics?
superbugs
What are resistant bacteria called in the media?
Allan Coukell,
Who is a director at the Pew Charitable Trusts?
Polish and French
What was Frédéric's nationalities?
Romantic era
In what era was Frédéric active in?
solo piano
For what instrument did Frédéric write primarily for?
Duchy of Warsaw
In what area was Frédéric born in?
20
At what age did Frédéric depart from Poland?
1810
What year was Chopin born?
Romantic era
What era was Chopin active during?
Warsaw
Where did Chopin grow up?
solo piano
What instrument did he mostly compose for?
20
At what age did Chopin leave Poland?
17 October 1849
When did Chopin die?
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
What was Chopin's full name?
solo piano
The majority of Chopin's compositions were for what instrument?
Romantic era
Chopin was active during what era?
1810
In what year was Chopin born?
Warsaw
In what city was Chopin born and raised?
20
How old was Chopin when he left Poland?