The mnemonics for micro are great in First Aid and MMRS, so I can't really compete with their mnemonics this time.
Drugs which are bactericidal
- look at First AID
Very Finely Proficient At Cell Murder!
All the rest at bacteriostatic.
Penicillin
- this is quite obvious
- just have to keep in mind that although it can kill a broad range of bugs, it can't kill those that produce penicillinase (most notably Staph aureus)
Mechanism
- blocks cross linking in the cell wall
mn
- think of a pen blocking the transpeptidases from cross linking the wall
- a pen can be used to kill alot of bugs, but can't be used to kill a STAFF (or bundle) of bugs.
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