B6 - Preventing and treating disease

Question 1

Antibiotic

Answer 1

Drug that destroys bacteria inside the body without damaging human cells

Question 2

Antiviral drugs

Answer 2

A drug that kills or inhibits viruses and is used to treat viral infections

Question 3

Double blind trials

Answer 3

A drug trial in which neither the patient nor the doctor know if the patient is receiving the new drug or placebo

Question 4

Monoclonal antibody

Answer 4

A specific antibody produced by one of numerous identical cells that came from a single parent cell

Question 5

Penicillin

Answer 5

A specific type of antibiotic

Question 6

Placebo

Answer 6

A substance used in clinical trials which does not contain any drug at all

Question 7

Resistance

Answer 7

The degree to which pathogenic microorganisms remain unaffected by antibiotics and other drugs

Question 8

Vaccination

Answer 8

Introducing small quantities of dead or inactive pathogen into the body to stimulate the white blood cells to produce antibodies that destroy the pathogens. This makes the person immune to future infection