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Foundations in Microbiology, 4/e
Kathleen Park Talaro, Pasadena City College
Arthur Talaro

Drugs, Microbes, Host: The Elements of Chemotherapy

Supplemental Quiz

1. It is clear that indiscriminant use of antibiotics has resulted in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Describe three practices that may prevent future evolutionary pressure for bacteria to become resistant.

2. If clinical use of an antimicrobial drug is based upon its effectiveness as well as the absence of human toxicity (the therapeutic index), how would you design the ideal anti-microbial? What characteristics would be required? What would be its mechanism of action? How would it be delivered?

3. Why is it necessary to subculture onto agar media the contents of the MIC test vials? What does the MIC test determine relative to the results of the agar media subculture?