Chapter 41- Antituberculosis Drugs

Question 1

Aerobic

Answer 1

Requiring oxygen for the maintenance of life

Question 2

Antituberculosis drugs

Answer 2

Drugs used to treat infections caused by Mycobacterium bacterial species

Question 3

Bacillus

Answer 3

Rod-Shaped bacteria

Question 4

Granuloma

Answer 4

Any small nodular aggregation of inflammatory cells, usually characterized by clearly delimited boundaries, as found in TB.

Question 5

Isoniazid

Answer 5

The primary and most commonly prescribed tuberculostatic drug

Question 6

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Answer 6

TB that demonstrates resistance to two or more drugs

Question 7

Slow acetylator

Answer 7

Someone with a genetic defect that causes a deficiency in the enzyme needed to metabolize isoniazid, most widely used TB drug, thus reducing the rate of metabolism of the drug

Question 8

Tubercle

Answer 8

The characteristic lesion of tuberculosis; a small, round, grey, translucent granulomatous lesion, usually with a cheesy consistency in its interior.

Question 9

Tubercle bacilli

Answer 9

Rod-shaped TB bacteria

Question 10

TB

Answer 10

Any infectious disease caused by species of Mycrobacterium. Usually M.tuberculosis.