Antimicrobials

Important questions

Essays:

1. Beta lactam antibiotics- Penicillins

2. Beta lactam antibiotics- Cephalosporins
3. Anti-tubercular drugs with regimens
4. Antifungal drugs
5. Anti-retroviral drugs with regimens (for pre & post exposure prophylaxis &
treatment)
6. Anti-malarial drugs with regimens
7. Fluoroquinolones
8. Antimicrobial agents (AMA)- General considerations- classification, sources,
problems with AMA use, mechanism of resistance against AMA

(Note: Read these topics in detail as individual / group of drugs from the above
topics can be asked as short notes)

Short notes:

1. Imipenam-cilastatin
2. Co-trimoxazole
3. Tetracyclines
4. Chloramphenicol
5. Aminoglycosides
6. Macrolides
7. Vancomycin
8. Clindamycin
9. Linezolid
10.Drugs for Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
11.Bedaquiline
12.Dapsone & other anti-leprotic drugs
13.Amphotericin B
14.Acyclovir
15.Drugs for viral hepatitis (B & C)
16.Drugs for Influenza
17.Drugs for herpes
18.Zidovudine
19.Integrase inhibitors
20.Chloroquine
21.Primaquine
22.Artemisinin derivatives
23.Metronidazole & other anti-amoebic drugs
24.Drugs for leishmaniasis
25.Albendazole
26.Ivermectin
27.Diethylcarbamazine (DEC)