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Antibiotic and Chemotherapeutic Methods for Microbial Control

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Nucleic acid synthesis inhibitors, like the fluoroquinolones, primarily target which of the following processes?
Binary Fission
An example of a broad-spectrum antimicrobial is one that is:
selectively toxic for gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Which of the following statements about antimicrobial therapeutics is true?
Antimicrobials should be microbiostatic
Which of the following classes of antibiotics inhibits bacterial growth by targeting protein synthesis?
Aminoglycosides
A disk diffusion assay is used to:
Test for the antibiotic-susceptibility of a pathogen.
Drug efflux pumps are an example of a mechanism of antibiotic resistance that arises through which of the following processes?
Horizontal gene transfer
Target modification is an example of a mechanism of antibiotic resistance that arises through which of the following processes?
Spontaneous mutation
Lactamases are enzymes that confer resistance to which of the following classes of antibiotics?
Penicillins
an E-test is used to:
Test for the minimum inhibitory concertation of an antibiotic.
Which of the following classes of antibiotics inhibits bacterial growth by targeting cell wall synthesis?
Penicillins
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