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Antibiotics - Mechanisms and Sites of Action 

Inhibit Cell Wall Synthesis or Function 
- Beta Lactams,
Beta Lactams, Vancomycin ... #Antibiotics #Bacteria
Vancomycin and Dalbavancin (lipoglycopeptide antibiotics) - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Glycopeptide -  inhibits cell wall synthesis
Vancomycin and Dalbavancin ... organisms, including bacteremia ... Review #Overview #Vancomycin
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating Bacterial Enteric Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing Bacterial Enteric Illness:
 • Antimicrobial
Preventing and Treating Bacterial ... HIV-AIDS Preventing Bacterial ... prophylaxis to prevent bacterial ... With or Without Bacteremia ... Infection (CDI): • Vancomycin
Septic Arthritis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Clinical Exam: hot, swollen, pain with passive AND active ROM
N. gonorrhoeae Vancomycin ... negative bacilli Vancomycin ... staphylococcus Vancomycin ... swollen, painful = bacterial
Peritonitis - Spontaneous vs Secondary vs Peritoneal Dialysis Associated Peritonitis
Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis
 • Cirrhosis (high SAAG)
Peritonitis Spontaneous Bacterial ... albumin Secondary Bacterial ... Intraperitoneal vancomycin
General Bacterial Antibiogram - Antibiotics and Spectrum of Coverage
Make sure you consult your local antibiogram!
VRE -
General Bacterial ... clindamycin - vancomycin ... Antibiotics #Classes #Bacterial
Rhodococcus - Microbiology Overview

Microbiology:
 • Facultative, intracellular, nonmotile, non-spore-forming
 • Aerobic acid-fast gram-positive coccobacilli
 • Produces
following: Rifampin, Vancomycin ... treatment #pulmonary #Bacteria
Medications causing Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
Prerenal:
 • Dehydration: Diuretics
 • Altered intrarenal autoregulation: ACEIs / ARBs,
Beta-lactams, vancomycin ... sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim (Bactrim
Chloramphenicol - Antibiotics Class Overview

– 50S ribosomal inhibitor.   IV or PO (but PO form
) – mainly for bacterial ... patients with bacterial ... allergy would be Vancomycin ... Chloramphenicol +/- Bactrim
Intern Pocket Cards - Antibiogram and Susceptibilities
VRE - MRSA - GRAM POSITIVES - GRAM NEGATIVES -
clindamycin - vancomycin ... (e.g., UTI, bacteremia