GMS 6540 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is the primary reason that treatment for mycoplasma infection involves many
drugs taken simultaneously?
To prevent resistance
Each drug has no efficacy on its own
It is unknown which drug will work best for each patient
Some drugs are to lessen side effects of the other - ✔✔To prevent resistance
✔✔Your physician prescribes you an anti-mycoplasma drug and when you ask how it
works, they say, "I don't know." Assuming the physician is competent, which drug was
likely prescribed?
Isoniazid
Rifampin
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol - ✔✔Pyrazinamide
✔✔Does amphotericin B increase or decrease the amount of diffusion that happens
across a fungal cell membrane?
Increase
Decrease - ✔✔Increase
✔✔What type of biological molecule does Caspofungin bind to?
Carbohydrate
Nucleic acid
Lipid
Protein - ✔✔Protein
✔✔If a 1 mg/kg dose of amphotericin B kills 25% of present fungus and a 30 mg/kg
dose of flucytosine kills 30% of present fungus, what would be a reasonable amount of
fungus to expect to be killed if the two doses are given simultaneously?
10%
25%
30%
55%
75% - ✔✔75%
✔✔Which of the following antifungals is available OTC to treat athlete's foot?
, Amphotericin B
Flucytosine
Nystatin
Ketoconazole
Terbinafine - ✔✔Terbinafine
✔✔Which drug is only used to treat thrush?
Amphotericin B
Flucytosine
Nystatin
Miconazole
Terbinafine - ✔✔Nystatin
✔✔What type of molecule is the ultimate target of Flagyl?
DNA
RNA
Protein
Lipid
Carbohydrate - ✔✔DNA
✔✔What type of molecule is the ultimate target of chloroquine?
DNA
RNA
Protein
Lipid
Carbohydrate - ✔✔Protein
✔✔Which drug is a natural product that can be isolated from the bark of a tree?
Flagyl
Chloroquine
Quinine
Doxycycline
Primaquine - ✔✔Quinine
✔✔Which drug can be used to treat both bacterial infections and malaria?
Flagyl
Chloroquine
Quinine
Doxycycline
Primaquine - ✔✔Doxycycline
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What is the primary reason that treatment for mycoplasma infection involves many
drugs taken simultaneously?
To prevent resistance
Each drug has no efficacy on its own
It is unknown which drug will work best for each patient
Some drugs are to lessen side effects of the other - ✔✔To prevent resistance
✔✔Your physician prescribes you an anti-mycoplasma drug and when you ask how it
works, they say, "I don't know." Assuming the physician is competent, which drug was
likely prescribed?
Isoniazid
Rifampin
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol - ✔✔Pyrazinamide
✔✔Does amphotericin B increase or decrease the amount of diffusion that happens
across a fungal cell membrane?
Increase
Decrease - ✔✔Increase
✔✔What type of biological molecule does Caspofungin bind to?
Carbohydrate
Nucleic acid
Lipid
Protein - ✔✔Protein
✔✔If a 1 mg/kg dose of amphotericin B kills 25% of present fungus and a 30 mg/kg
dose of flucytosine kills 30% of present fungus, what would be a reasonable amount of
fungus to expect to be killed if the two doses are given simultaneously?
10%
25%
30%
55%
75% - ✔✔75%
✔✔Which of the following antifungals is available OTC to treat athlete's foot?
, Amphotericin B
Flucytosine
Nystatin
Ketoconazole
Terbinafine - ✔✔Terbinafine
✔✔Which drug is only used to treat thrush?
Amphotericin B
Flucytosine
Nystatin
Miconazole
Terbinafine - ✔✔Nystatin
✔✔What type of molecule is the ultimate target of Flagyl?
DNA
RNA
Protein
Lipid
Carbohydrate - ✔✔DNA
✔✔What type of molecule is the ultimate target of chloroquine?
DNA
RNA
Protein
Lipid
Carbohydrate - ✔✔Protein
✔✔Which drug is a natural product that can be isolated from the bark of a tree?
Flagyl
Chloroquine
Quinine
Doxycycline
Primaquine - ✔✔Quinine
✔✔Which drug can be used to treat both bacterial infections and malaria?
Flagyl
Chloroquine
Quinine
Doxycycline
Primaquine - ✔✔Doxycycline
