Exam 14: Antimicrobial Therapy

The mode of action of an antimicrobial agent refers to _____

Selective toxicity:

Tetracyclines interfere with _____.

What antibiotic kills bacteria by disrupting their cell membranes

Side effects due to antimicrobial agents may involve all of the following except:

Polypeptide antibiotics that act as detergents and distort bacterial cellular membranes do so by:

A Candida albicans infection of the intestine,vagina or oral cavity is commonly treated with _____.

Which one of the following antimicrobial agents is an inhibitor of cell wall synthesis

Mutation of DNA that produces an altered ribosome is an example of what type of bacterial resistance mechanism

Antibiotics inhibit bacterial protein synthesis:

A test to determine the effectiveness of an antimicrobial agent that uses growth of a test microorganism in patients' blood serum is the:

The ideal antimicrobial agent:

Which of the antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis in susceptible bacteria

Which does NOT involve testing microbial sensitivity to antimicrobials

Imidazoles and triazoles are antimicrobial agents that are effective:

A microorganism that can use ready-made folic acid from its environment and no longer needs to synthesize it from the PABA precursor demonstrates an example of what type of antimicrobial resistance mechanism

The development of second-line and third-line antimicrobial agents demonstrates:

Antibiotics that bind to RNA polymerase_____.

Rimantadine is an effective antimicrobial agent against:

Penicillin was discovered by ____________ and was isolated by ________ .