Online Courses Handbook 2003

2998 (v.4) Chemotherapy 224

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	11677 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 233 or any previous version AND 11679 (v.3) Pharmaceutical Biology 231 or any previous version
Co Requisite(s):	8013 (v.5) Pharmacology 224 AND 12936 (v.2) Pharmaceutical Chemistry 200 AND 12937 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 200
Selective toxicity - scope of antimicrobial chemotherapy. Classifications of antibiotics. Principles of treatment - clinical diagnosis; bacteriological diagnosis, reasons for treatment failure. The antimicrobial action, absorption, distribution, elimination, untoward effects and their place in chemotherapy of the following drug groups - sulphonamides and trimethoprim, betalactams, inhibitors of protein synthesis, macrolides and lincomycin and tetracyclines.