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34. General concepts

Antimicrobial chemotherapy

Is the clinical application of antimicrobial agents to treat infectious
disease

Types of antimicrobial chemotherapy:

 Antibacterial chemotherapy the use of antibacterial drugs
(antibiotics) to treat bacterial infection
 Antifungal chemotherapy the use of antifungal drugs to treat

fungal infection
 Antiviral chemotherapy  the use of antiviral drugs to treat viral
infection

Antimicrobial

 An agent that kills microorganisms or inhibits their growth

Types of Antimicrobials

 Microbicidal
 Microbiostatic

Microbicidal

Agents that kill microbes

Microbiostatic

Contents Agents that inhibit their growth of microbes

Pharmacology Mnemonics and Short Notes By Muhammad Ramzan Ul Rehman