Six lessons cover this chapter. Open any of them on its own below, or meet it in place inside chapter 9 of the book. Tick a lesson off once you can predict what it will do before you touch it.
1
The Therapeutic Window
Slide the dose of four drugs. Watch the kill rise, and then the harm.
2
The Five Antibiotic Targets
Send a drug at each of the five targets. Watch that part of the cell fail.
3
Reading a Susceptibility Report
Measure the zones, read a strip and a tray, then sign each drug out.
4
Narrow vs. Broad Spectrum
Widen a drug's reach. Watch the good flora fall along with the germ.
5
How Bacteria Resist Antibiotics
Give a cell each defense. Then send in six drugs and see what gets through.
6
The Five Rights of Stewardship
Set the five rights for a real case. Run the course and see how it ends.