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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. The antibiotic penicillin was discovered by which of the following researchers?
2. Which of the following antibiotic is not involved in the inhibition of specific enzyme systems?
3. Tyrocidines are more effective against ___________________
4. Polymyxins inhibits the growth of the microbes by carrying out which of the following actions?
5. Amantadine is very effective against influenza A virus.
6. Streptomyces orientalis produces which of the following antibiotics?
7. Which of the following interferes with the regeneration of the monophosphate form of bactoprenol from the pyrophosphate form?
8. Which of the following is the most accurate method for microbial assay of antibiotics?
9. Anthramycin is which of the following type of antibiotic?
10. Acycloguanosine is a nucleoside analog which is active against ___________________
11. Nystatin is produced from the strain _____________________
12. Zone of inhibition is observed in tube-dilution method.
13. Which of the following is effective in the control of tuberculosis in humans?
14. Benzylpenicillin is the chemical name for which of the following penicillin?
15. Bacterial cells grown in a medium exposed to high osmotic pressure, changes shape from rod-shaped to __________ shaped.
16. Griseofulvin is useful in the therapy of nonsystemic fungal infections.
17. Sulfanilamide was synthesized by which of the following research scientists?
18. The crystalline sodium or potassium salts are slightly soluble in ___________
19. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a chemotherapeutic agent?
20. Phenol is considered as a chemotherapeutic agent.
21. Sulfonamides and arsphenamine are similar in their specificity for a special group of organism.
22. Pigs respond dramatically to the addition of which of the following antibiotics to their diet?
23. Antibiotic produced by Streptomyces rimosus is _______________
24. Which of the following inhibits protein synthesis by combining with the 50S subunit ribosome?
25. Antibiotics are not effective against plant pathogens.

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