Friday, August 12, 2011

Mnemonic for Live Attenuated Vaccines

Live attenuated vaccines consist of live bacteria or virus which have been rendered avirulent.The 8 live vaccines are
1.   BCG
2.  Ty-21a
3.  OPV
4.  Measles
5.  Mumps
6.  Rubella
7.  Varicella
8.  Yellow fever

 The given picture mnemonic will help you remember them.Click on the image to enlarge it.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Prefix/Root/Suffix used in Drugs

Most of the drugs can be identified by root/suffix/prefix present in their names.
Table below depicts the suffixes present in different drug categories alongwith examples..

You can download the whole table in PDF format from links given below.

DOWNLOAD (from Mediafire)
                            Short version
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