Lecture 14 Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms

Question 1

What are antibiotics

Answer 1

Compounds produced by microorganisms that kill or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms

Question 2

70% of antibiotics are produced by

Answer 2

Streptomyces bacteria

Question 3

Penicillin was first antibiotic and produced by

Answer 3

Penicillium notatum

Question 4

How many known antibiotics

Answer 4

8000

Question 5

Who discovered Penicillin

Answer 5

Alexander Fleming in 1928

Question 6

Name the green mold that helped Alexander Fleming to discover Penicillin

Answer 6

Penicillium notatum

Question 7

When did Fleming,Florey and Chain win Nobel prize

Answer 7

In 1945

Question 8

Bactericidal

Answer 8

Kill microbes directly

Question 9

Bacteriostatic

Answer 9

Prevent microbes from growing

Question 10

Synergism occurs when

Answer 10

the effect of two drugs together is greater than the effect of either alone

Question 11

Antagonism occurs when

Answer 11

the effect of two drugs together is less than the effect of either alone

Question 12

Name an inhibitor of cell wall synthesis

Answer 12

Penicillin

Question 13

Penicillin G requires what to be taken

Answer 13

An injection

Question 14

Penicillin V required what to be taken

Answer 14

Can be taken orally

Question 15

When did S. aureus became resistant to penicillin

Answer 15

In 1945 - two years after it was first widely used

Question 16

S. aureus became resistant to methicillin in

Answer 16

1961- two years after it was first widely used