Antimicrobials Questions
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Instructions: In this assignment you will investigate the antimicrobial therapies used currently to target microbes from your microbe exploration. Upload your completed assignment to Canvas by the posted deadline.
Complete the questions for both of your project microbes.
What are the antimicrobial medications that are currently used to target each of the microbes. List the drug name(s) and what antimicrobial group it belongs (antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiprotozoans, or antihelminths).
What specific cellular component do these drugs target in/on your pathogens?
Are there any side effects, including drug allergies, of your selected medications?
Have there been reports of drug-resistance to these drugs? Elaborate.
*For choosing your drug, you can refer to a variety of sources including Pubmed. Pubmed and cdc.gov, Google scholar, etc can also be used to discover other features of the drug you choose. For instance, the article below was found using google (not Pubmed), however, there are several other articles by the same authors (some even updates to topics from this article) that can be found through Pubmed. In addition, you can find drug-resistance information on Pubmed as well as the CDC website.
Extra reference if needed:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC99026/pdf/mr000232.pdf