Exam 13: Antimicrobial Therapy

Purine or pyrimidine analogs:

Any chemical substance used in medical practice is known as a/an

The mode of action of an antimicrobial agent refers to

Rimantadine is an effective antimicrobial agent against:

Interferons and immunoenhancers

The characteristic that applies to an ideal antimicrobial agent:

Antimetabolites include all of the following except

Paul Ehrlich

Antibiotics bind to RNA polymerase and

The ideal antimicrobial agent

Cephalosporins are not

Which of following is not a way to limit the ability of microorganisms to acquire drug resistance?

What antibiotic kills bacteria by disrupting their cell membranes?

Determining microbial sensitivity to an antimicrobial agent by using a filter paper soaked with the drug on a bacterial lawn on an agar plate is called:

Penicillin was discovered by ____________ and was isolated by ________ .

Tetracyclines interfere with

Clear area on agar that surrounds a filter paper disk on the disk diffusion tests and represents inhibited growth of a test microorganism is called:

Which does not involve testing microbial sensitivity to antimicrobials?

The lowest concentration of drug that yields no growth during a dilution method is called

Selective toxicity