Statistics for Microbiology Quiz #8

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