A chemical, produced by a microbe to inhibit the growth of other microbes, is isolated and then modified in a chemical reaction in the laboratory. Which of the following terms would most accurately apply? O Synthetic O Antibiotic O Phenolic O Microbistatic O Opportunistic

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Q: which antimicrobial drugs are produced naturally?

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Q: Could an organism that is susceptible to an antimicrobial agent in laboratory testing fail to…

A: To identify the acceptable antimicrobial agent and dose for treatment of microorganism infections…

Q: Briefly describe the main scientific principle(s) underlying the following techniques used in the…

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Q: Clearly describe the application of microbes in wastewater treatment, the Food industry, and brewery…

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Q: The size of the inhibition zone depends on conditions such as: Multiple Choice The concentration of…

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Q: Suppose you spilled two cultures of Salmonella typhimur-ium (each containing 100,000 cells) on your…

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Q: List five cellular or structural mechanisms that microbes use to resist antimicrobials.

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Q: There are different methods to deal with microorganisms’ growth. Whar are the various physical…

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Q: Describe three groups of microorganisms that are resistant to certain chemical treatments.

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Q: What type of antimicrobial/antibiotic is completely synthesized in a laboratory? O Synthetic O…

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Q: Identifying an unknown bacterium is an essential step in the diagnosis and treatment process. Since…

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Q: Which of the following mechanisms of action of antibiotics has the fewest side effects?   protein…

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Q: Identify two factors( in detail)that make biofilms more tolerant to antimicrobials including their…

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Q: An antimicrobial agent shows selective toxicity when specifically: An antimicrobial agent is said to…

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Q: Microbes can be used to decrease the use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Explain how this…

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Q: You have learned many different techniques so far this semester that allow us to identify pathogenic…

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Q: Soap and detergents are categorized as which type of antimicrobial chemical? oxidizing agent…

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Q: riefly describe any THREE CATEGORIES (three modes of action) of antibacterial drugs.  Make sure to…

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Q: Changes in the bacterial genome can lead to resistance

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Q: Why would a sputum sample have been collected before antibiotic therapy was commenced?

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Q: there are different methods to be used in order to control opportunistic infection and that includes…

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Q: Which of the letter labeled microbes is exhibiting gamma-hemolysis? O Both Microbes A and B O…

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Q: Below, you can see a picture of an antimicrobial drug. Regarding semi-synthetic antimicrobial drug…

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Q: Which of the following is an example of microbial control? Select all that apply. View Available…

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Q: Your patient has a severe sore throat. A throat swab has allowed you to isolate the causative…

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Q: If you had another drug, Drug B, that the microbe was also susceptible too that was in every way…

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Q: One of the following matches indicatIng early microbial spoilage of pharmaceutical products is…

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Q: Which of the following statements regarding microbial death is FALSE? Question options: cell…

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Q: Name four factors that affect the death rate and effectiveness of any microbial agent.

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Q: If an antimicrobial drug does not exhibit selective toxicity, what might be a problem experienced by…

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Q: Broad-spectrum drugs target a wide variety of bacterial pathogens. Even when the broad-spectrum drug…

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Q: Why do most antibacterial drugs not destroy human cells?

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Q: Considering microbial identification methods, to which category would the following method belong…

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Q: After an antimicrobial drugs test, the following results were obtained from a disk-diffusion test…

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Food Microbiology

The subdivision of microbiology that deals with the interaction between microbes and food particles are called food microbiology. This scientific study incorporates both beneficial and harmful microbes and their effect on the food production, food storage, and health of human beings.