Understanding Antibiotic Resistance and Its Implications Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

some pulvinones have shown anticoagulant activity in rats, whilst other pulvinone derivatives are patented antibiotics for use in animals.

the giant leucopax mushroom has bioactive compounds with antioxidative, antibiotic, and anti-cancer properties.

worldwide resistance to the antibiotic mecillinam is remarkably low, even though it has been widely used as a treatment for urinary tract infections since the 1970s.

one bacterial strain of Streptomyces griseus has the capacity to produce up to 34 different secondary metabolites including antibiotics.

shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater.

ceftaroline is a novel antibiotic against MRSA and other resistant bacterial strains and is under clinical trial as a treatment for infectious diseases such as community-acquired pneumonia.

Elizabeth Lee Hazen developed the world's first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin.

Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming.

cefquinome is an antibiotic developed to treat bovine respiratory disease.

Understanding Antibiotic Resistance and Its Implications

1 [43] Antibiotic resistance is exchanged between different bacteria by ________ that carry genes which encode antibiotic resistance which may result in co-resistance to multiple antibiotics.

2 Mechanisms for freeing iron from the body (such as toxins and ________) are common among pathogens.

3 ________ are a commonly suggested method for combating MDRO infections.

4 Inappropriate antibiotic treatment and ________ have been a contributing factor to the emergence of resistant bacteria.

5 ________ are another alternative that goes beyond traditional antibiotics by employing a live culture which may in theory establish itself as a symbiont, competing, inhibiting, or simply interfering with colonization by pathogens.

6 [30][31] Interaction with the combined oral contraceptive pill through induction of hepatic enzymes by the antifungal medication griseofulvin and the broad-spectrum antibiotic ________ has been shown to occur.

7 [2] This original definition excluded naturally occurring substances that kill bacteria but are not produced by microorganisms (such as gastric juice and ________) and also excluded synthetic antibacterial compounds such as the sulfonamides.

8 The restriction of ________ availability is one way the human body limits bacterial proliferation [74].

9 [14] However, his work went by without much notice from the scientific community until ________'s discovery of Penicillin in 1928.

10 [1] Antibiotics belong to the broader group of ________ compounds, used to treat infections caused by microorganisms, including fungi and protozoa.

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