Antibiotic Drugs

Question 1

Prokaryotic cells, which are single - celled organisms without organelles or a true nucleus and are less complicated than eukaryotic cells, are found in single-celled microbes.

Answer 1

Bacteria

Question 2

Any drug that inhibits the growth of microorganisms or destroy them.

Answer 2

Antibacterial Drugs

Question 3

A second infection brought on by an earlier one, especially one caused by an external or endogenous microbial pathogen that is resistant to the medication used to treat the earlier illness.

Answer 3

Superinfection

Question 4

The outcome of two agents working together. It represents the total of each agent’s effects.

Answer 4

Additive Effect

Question 5

Occurs when the effects of one medicine are amplified by another. Reduced therapeutic effects or diminished unfavorable consequences would result from an inhibitory effect.

Answer 5

Potentiative Effect

Question 6

An interaction between two or more medications that have directly opposed physiological effects. Drug antagonists may prevent or lessen one or more medications’ ability to work.

Answer 6

Antagonistic Effect

Question 7

An antibiotic that has a narrow range of bacteria it may kill or prevent.

Answer 7

Narrow Spectrum

Question 8

May significantly lower the number of bacteria by eradicating a wide variety of microorganisms.

Answer 8

Broad Spectrum

Question 9

Treatment is administered based on experience, not with precision on the etiology or characteristics of an illness.

Answer 9

Empiric Therapy

Question 10

Therapy is thought to be potentially curative on its own. Perhaps the most popular type of definitive therapy is surgery.

Answer 10

Definitive Therapy

Question 11

Involving or referring to pharmacological doses that are administered at levels too low to have a therapeutic effect.

Answer 11

Subtherapeutic

Question 12

A secondary infection that aggravates an existing illness, frequently caused by a virus or fungus. Typically, the superinfecting organism is one that is resistant to the medications being used to treat the initial infection.

Answer 12

Superinfection

Question 13

Recommended to treat several infectious conditions such streptococcal infections, pneumococcal infections, and staphylococcal infections

Answer 13

Penicillins

Question 14

Larger class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that may be used to work with a variety of bacterial diseases, including sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.

Answer 14

Cephalosporins