ANTI-INFECTIVES: GENERAL INFO

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT John Lister used ____ in surgery and post-traumatic infections or “ward fever.”

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Father of Sterile Surgery

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Worked on antibacterial dyes, organo-arsenicals (treatment for syphilis), and “Magic bullets”

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Father of Chemotherapy

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of ____, the property of certain chemicals to kill one type of organism while not harming another.

TERMINOLOGIES Substances that destroy or kill microorganisms that causes infection

TERMINOLOGIES • Local Anti-Infective Agents • Compounds that is used to locally kill microorganisms

TERMINOLOGIES Compounds that kill (-cidal) or prevent the growth of (-static) microorganisms when applied to living tissue.

TERMINOLOGIES Agent that prevents transmission of infection by the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms when applied to inanimate objects.

TERMINOLOGIES The ratio of a dilution of a given test disinfectant to the dilution of phenol required to kill a strain of Salmonella typhi.

TERMINOLOGIES The strain used to determine the phenol coefficient.