ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS QUIZ

The antibiotics which affords a broad spectrum of antimicrobial coverage against aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, rickettsiae, chlamydiae, and mycoplasmas is

vancomycin

metronidazole

gentamicin

tetracycline

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Quinolones are

bacteriostatic

antimetabolites

broad-spectrum

penicillin derivatives

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When using alcohol as an antiseptic, which concentration is considered most effective?

95%

25%

70%

50%

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The larger the __________ , the better the chemotherapeutic agent.

therapeutic index

spectrum

therapeutic dose

selective toxicity

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Cephalosporins and Penicillins interfere with which of the following?

DNA function

Cell wall synthesis

Protein synthesis

Cell membrane function

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Which of the following may cause resistance to penicillin?

Alteration or lack of penicillin-binding proteins

Impermeability of cell envelope

All of these

Production of β-lactamases by bacteria

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Which of the following group is not the carbohydrate containing antibiotic?

Erythromycin & candicidin

Vancomycin & Moenomycin

Everninomycin & Nogirimycin

Streptomycin & Streptothricin

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Which antibiotic has a beta-lactam ring?

Cephalosporin

Penicillin

Streptomycin

Tetracycline

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Vancomycin inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis by binding

alanine racemase

D-alanyl - D-alanine

amidase

D-alanyl - D-alanine synthetase

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Bacterial cells susceptible to penicillium can be protected from destruction if the medium in which they are exposed is of

low osmotic pressure

high surface tension

high osmotic pressure

moderate osmotic pressure

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