level: Level 1 of Antimicrobial Agents
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Level 1 of Antimicrobial Agents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| are used to treat infectious diseases | • Antimicrobial drugs |
| Differences between Disinfectants and Antimicrobial drugs | • Disinfectants are often need to act within the host • Antimicrobial drugs, to be called ideal, should kill the harmful microorganisms without damaging the host |
| • The mechanism of inhibition in which antibiotic comes from | Antibiosis |
| • A substance produced by microorganisms that in small amounts inhibits another microorganism | Antibiotic |
| The fully synthetic sulfa drugs are technically antimicrobial drugs and not __ which is a distinction often ignored in practice | Antibiotics |
| • Succeeded in first clinical trials of penicillin | 1940, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain |
| • Mostly, our antibiotics is from a strain of microorganisms such as what? | streptomyces, bacillus, penicillum, and cephalosporium |