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Microbiology Practice Test: Antibiotics and Other Chemotherapeutic Agents
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Antibiotics and Other Chemotherapeutic Agents topics include: Chemotherapy historical highlights, antibiotics and their actions, microbiological assay of antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and antitumour antibiotics. Antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents are both used to treat microorganisms: Antibiotics: Can be synthetic compounds or naturally produced. Antibiotics are antimicrobial chemotherapeutic agents that target microbial proteins. They work by interfering with the physiological pathways of microbes, killing them. The ideal antimicrobial agent is nontoxic to the host,... Show more
Microbiology Practice Test: Antibiotics and Other Chemotherapeutic Agents
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1. Anthramycin is which of the following type of antibiotic?
2. Which of the following does not affect the activity of penicillin?
3. Which of the following antibiotic have a sparing effect on the B12 in the diet?
4. Zone of inhibition is observed in tube-dilution method.
5. The antibiotic penicillin was discovered by which of the following researchers?
6. Phenol is considered as a chemotherapeutic agent.
7. Antibiotics are not effective against plant pathogens.
8. Streptomyces orientalis produces which of the following antibiotics?
9. Which of the following inhibits protein synthesis by combining with the 50S subunit ribosome?
10. Which was the first disease for which a chemotherapeutic agent was used?
11. Which of the following chemothearpeutic agent is extensively used because of their antibacterial effectiveness in a wide range of bacterial infections?
12. Cell-wall biosynthesis is inhibited by antibiotics by inhibiting the biosynthesis of which of the following?
13. Griseofulvin is useful in the therapy of nonsystemic fungal infections.
14. Ampicillin is a bactericidal antibiotic.
15. Amantadine is very effective against influenza A virus.
16. The international unit of penicillin is defined by how much amount of International Standard?
17. Which of the following interferes with the regeneration of the monophosphate form of bactoprenol from the pyrophosphate form?
18. Bacterial cells grown in a medium exposed to high osmotic pressure, changes shape from rod-shaped to __________ shaped.
19. Tyrocidines are more effective against ___________________
20. Benzylpenicillin is the chemical name for which of the following penicillin?
21. Structurally all penicillins have only beta-lactam present in them.
22. Antibiotic produced by Streptomyces rimosus is _______________
23. Which of the following is the most accurate method for microbial assay of antibiotics?
24. Polymyxins inhibits the growth of the microbes by carrying out which of the following actions?
25. Sulfonamides and arsphenamine are similar in their specificity for a special group of organism.

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