Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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What does penicillin prevent bacteria from completing causing lysis? | Cell wall | 100%
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Who accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928? | Alexander Fleming | 33%
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Antimicrobial agent which kills microbes | Cidal | 33%
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Standardized method for disk diffusion test | Kirby-Bauer Method | 33%
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Antimicrobial agent which limits growth of microbes | Static | 33%
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Drug level required for clinical treatment | Therapeutic dose | 33%
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Drug level at which drug becomes too toxic for patient (i.e., produces side effects) | Toxic dose | 33%
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Drugs effective against a wider range of different pathogens | Broad spectrum | 0%
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What does daptomycin target? | Cell membrane | 0%
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What do β-lactams and vancomycin target? | Cell Wall | 0%
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Test which involves inoculating media containing different concentrations of drug | Dilution Susceptibility | 0%
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Test where disks impregnated with specific drugs are placed on agar plates inoculated with test microbe | Disk Diffusion | 0%
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What do fluoroquinolones and rifamycin's target? | DNA/RNA synthesis | 0%
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Who originally discovered penicillin in 1896? | Ernest Duchesne | 0%
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Tests strips which contain a gradient of an antibiotic, convenient for use with anaerobic pathogens | ETest | 0%
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What do trimethoprim and sulphonamides target? | Folate synthesis | 0%
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Lowest concentration of drug that inhibits growth of pathogen | Minimal inhibitory concentration | 0%
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Lowest concentration of drug that kills pathogen | Minimal lethal concentration | 0%
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Drugs effective against a limited number of different pathogens | Narrow Spectrum | 0%
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Which inhibitor mimics peptide bond that is normally attacked by the enzyme? | Protease | 0%
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What do linezolid, tetracyclines, macrolides, and aminoglycosides target? | Protein synthesis | 0%
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Ability of drug to kill or inhibit pathogen while damaging host as little as possible | Selective toxicity | 0%
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Ratio of toxic dose to therapeutic dose | Therapeutic index | 0%
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