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Antibiotics SG
Question | Answer |
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What is the difference between bacteriostatic and bacteriocidial? | Bacteriostatic in hibits the growth or multipication of bacteria. Bacteriocidal is destructive to the bacteria |
What is a super infection? | Infection occurring after or on top of an earlier infection, esp. following treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics. |
Are antibiotics effective agaist viruses? | No |
What is penicillinase? | An enzyme that can inactivate penicillin, produced by certain bacteria |
How is HIV transmited? | By sexual contact, body fluids, from mother to child |
What occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks itself? | An autoimmune disease is developed |
What is drug resistance? | A microorganisms ability to live and grow in the presence of an anti-infective or antimicrodolial drug |