Vancomycin, while not an aminoglycoside, has similar nursing implication. The mycin designation will clue you to the fact a drug is an antibiotic and is worthy to remember this recognition tool. This creates deformed bacteria or ones unable to reproduce. Two drugs will be discussed in this category. One for system infections, the other, more common in treating localized infections.
Medications have a similar mechanism of action.
These agents work by binding to a substance in the fungi cell wall. In doing this, they create pores or channels in the cell wall increasing cell wall permeability. With permeability altered, cell contents are allowed to leak out and the fungal cell dies. How to kill the virus without damaging to host cells is only one of the challenges in drug therapy for viral infections. Another challenge is that viral replication is at its peak before symptoms are displayed.