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Pharmacology: Antibiotics
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Pharmacology: Antibiotics
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1. Streptomycin is more active at
2. The aminoglycoside that can be used in amoebiasis is
3. Of the following which is the most important mechanism of concurrent acquisition of multidrug resistance among bacteria ?
4. Which of the following antibiotics possess neuromuscular blocking action
5. The semisynthetic penicillin which is destroyed by acid is
6. The following antibiotic is a first line drug for treatment of Mycobacterium avium complex infection in AIDS patients
7. Select the antibiotic whose dose must be reduced in patients with renal insufficiency
8. Select the most potent tetracycline antibiotic
9. An advantage of bleomycin over most antineoplastic drugs is its
10. Addition of clavulanic acid to amoxicillin is to
11. Clavulanic acid is combined with amoxicillin because
12. Which one of the following statements about 'one daily' dosing with aminoglycosides is false ?
13. Hepatitits with cholestatic jaundice occurs most frequently as an adverse reaction to the following preparation of erythromycin
14. Select the fourth generation cephalosporin among the following
15. Adverse effects of ciprofloxacin are referable primarily to the following except
16. The most important mechanism of bacterial resistance to an aminoglycoside antibiotic is
17. Prolonged oral therapy with the following antibiotic can damage intestinal villi resulting in statorrhoea and loose motions
18. In the treatment of typhoid fever, ciprofloxacin has the following advantage(s)
19. All of the following factors may increase the risk of nephrotoxicity from gentamicin therapy except
20. The most suitable tetracycline for use in a patient with impaired renal function is
21. The most important reason for highly restricted use of penicillin G injections in present day therapeutics is its
22. A patient needs antibiotic treatment for native valve, culture-positive infective enterococcal endocarditis. His medical history includes a severe anaphylactic reaction to penicillin G during the past year. The best approach would be treatment with
23. Your 23-year-old female patient is pregnant and has gonorrhea. The past medical history includes anaphylaxis following exposure to amoxicillin. Worried about compliance, you would like to treat this patient with a singly dose, so you chose
24. Oral neomycin and streptomycin are used for sterlization of bowel and for dysentery because
25. Cyclosporine