Nurse 5334 Test 1 Questions with 100% Correct Answers

Mammalian cells do not have a rigid cell wall Correct Answer True Patients should not take folic acid supplements when prescribed sulfa drugs Correct Answer False Cephalosporines kill bacteria by weakening the cell wall and promoting bacterial lysis. Correct Answer True Aminoglycosides inhibit folic acid production by the microbe Correct Answer False Metronidazole inhibits DNA synthesis in certain microbes Correct Answer True Many drugs that are prescribed for HIV infection inhibit enzymes needed for viral reproduction Correct Answer True MRSA, VRE, and C dif are a problem because infection with these microbes is usually fatal Correct Answer False When patients take antibiotis as prescribed, resistance to antibiotics does not occur Correct Answer False Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics by producing enzymes that inactivate the macrobiotic. Correct Answer True If a bacterium changes its receptors, and antibiotic may not be able to bind to the microbe and exert effects Correct Answer True The human body can make compounds that prevent an antibiotic from exerting the desired effect Correct Answer False Some microbes can change so that they stop taking antibiotics into the cell Correct Answer True The New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase I (NDM-I) is common in people of Indian or Pakistan descent. Correct Answer False Broad-spectrum antibiotics kill more competing organisms than do narrow-spectrum drugs and do the most to facilitate emergence of resistance. Correct Answer True Narrow spectrum antibiotics tend to promote overgrowth of normal flora that possess mechanism for resistance. Correct Answer False