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Microbiology Quiz #8 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 12 times
- The average score is 4 of 23
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Drugs effective against a wider range of different pathogens | Broad spectrum | 50%
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| What does penicillin prevent bacteria from completing causing lysis? | Cell wall | 50%
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| Drugs effective against a limited number of different pathogens | Narrow Spectrum | 50%
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| Who accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928? | Alexander Fleming | 40%
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| Test where disks impregnated with specific drugs are placed on agar plates inoculated with test microbe | Disk Diffusion | 40%
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| What do β-lactams and vancomycin target? | Cell Wall | 30%
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| What does daptomycin target? | Cell membrane | 20%
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| Antimicrobial agent which kills microbes | Cidal | 20%
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| Standardized method for disk diffusion test | Kirby-Bauer Method | 20%
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| Antimicrobial agent which limits growth of microbes | Static | 20%
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| Drug level required for clinical treatment | Therapeutic dose | 20%
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| Drug level at which drug becomes too toxic for patient (i.e., produces side effects) | Toxic dose | 20%
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| Test which involves inoculating media containing different concentrations of drug | Dilution Susceptibility | 10%
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| What do fluoroquinolones and rifamycin's target? | DNA/RNA synthesis | 10%
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| Tests strips which contain a gradient of an antibiotic, convenient for use with anaerobic pathogens | ETest | 10%
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| Lowest concentration of drug that kills pathogen | Minimal lethal concentration | 10%
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| Which inhibitor mimics peptide bond that is normally attacked by the enzyme? | Protease | 10%
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| What do linezolid, tetracyclines, macrolides, and aminoglycosides target? | Protein synthesis | 10%
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| Who originally discovered penicillin in 1896? | Ernest Duchesne | 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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| 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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