Chapter 42- Antifungal Drugs

Question 1

Antimetabolite

Answer 1

A drug or other substance that either is a receptor antagonist or resembles a normal human metabolite and interferes with the metabolite’s function in the body, usually by competing for the metabolite’s usual receptors or enzymes

Question 2

Dermatophyte

Answer 2

One of several fungi, often found in soil, that infect skin, nails, or hair of humans

Question 3

Ergosterol

Answer 3

An unsaturated hydrocarbon of the Vit D group isolated from yeast, mushrooms, ergot, and other fungi; main sterol in fungal membranes

Question 4

Fungi

Answer 4

A large, diverse group of eukaryotic MO that require an external carbon source and form a plant structure know was a thallus. Fungi consist of yeasts and moulds

Question 5

Moulds

Answer 5

Multicellular fungi characterized by long, branching filaments called hyphae, which entwine to form a complex branched structure know as a mycelium

Question 6

Mycosis

Answer 6

The general term for any fungal infection

Question 7

Pathological fungi

Answer 7

Fungi that causes mycoses

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Question 8

Sterol

Answer 8

The substance in the cell membranes of the fungi to which polyene anti fungal drugs bind

Question 9

Yeasts

Answer 9

Single-celled fungi that reproduce by budding.