ANTIVIRAL AGENTS

Best medications for salmonella

Cipro (ciprofloxacin) Fluoroquinolone antibiotic Oral

Floxin (ofloxacin) Fluoroquinolone antibiotic Oral

Zithromax (azithromycin) Macrolide antibiotic Oral

Rocephin (ceftriaxone) Cephalosporin antibiotic Injection

What drugs are used to treat salmonella?

Common first-line oral antibiotics for susceptible Salmonella infections are
fluoroquinolones (for adults) and azithromycin (for children). Ceftriaxone is an
alternative first-line treatment agent

Pseudomonal infections are increasingly resistant to certain antibiotics, and the

organism may acquire resistance during therapy. Two agents from different classes
should be used when the risk of antibiotic resistance is high (eg, in severe sepsis,
septicemia, and inpatient neutropenia).
Pseudomonas infection can be treated with a combination of an antipseudomonal beta-
lactam (eg, penicillin or cephalosporin) and an aminoglycoside. Carbapenems (eg,
imipenem, meropenem) with antipseudomonal quinolones may be used in conjunction
with an aminoglycoside
The most common medications used to treat tuberculosis include:
 Isoniazid.
 Rifampin (Rifadin, Rimactane)
 Ethambutol (Myambutol)
 Pyrazinamide.

Drug names
 myambutol, a drug used to treat TB
All the drug names have abbreviations which are either one, two or three letters. 2 There are also trade
or brand names, which is the name by which a drug is known when it is being sold in a particular
country and is made by a particular manufacturer.
For example ethambutol is known in India by a variety of trade names which include Abitol (made
by Alpic Remedies), Actuate (made by Biocin Genetics) and Albutol (Alkem Laboratories). 3 In other
countries the trade name will be different. For example, ethambutol is sometimes referred to as
Myambutol. Isoniazid is sometimes called AKT4 (Lupin Laboratories).

The United States uses abbreviations and names that are not internationally recognised. For example,
rifampicin is called rifampin and abbreviated RIF.

TB drug regimens
A regimen means a course of treatment. For TB this means a combination of drugs. Drug regimens
are described in a standard manner. The drugs are listed by their single letter abbreviations. The order
is the order that is roughly the order that they were introduced into clinical practice. The number of
months that the drug should be given for is denoted by a prefix. A subscript denotes intermittent
dosing, and no subscript means daily dosing. Most regimens have an initial high intensity phase
followed by a continuation phase. The high intensity phase is described first and is followed by the
continuation phase. A slash separates the two phases.
So 2HREZ/4HR3 means isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol and pyrazinamide daily for two months,
followed by four months of isoniazid and rifampicin given three times a week.