Frequent use of antimicrobial drugs in health care settings can select for drug-resistant populations of microbes in places such as hospitals. O True O False

Q: Which of the following would not be a potential side effect of standard antimicrobial drugs?…

A: An antimicrobial drug can disrupt the host's normal microbiota. Microbiota is the group of microbes,…

Q: ways a disease can be transmitted? What impact do we have as human that can support the control of…

A: Health was thought to be a  state of body and mind where a balance of certain humors is found. In…

Q: Alchohol based hand sanitizers are effective against influenza. True/False?

A: Influenza is a viral infection caused by the influenza virus. It is commonly known as flu. There are…

Q: What do you mean by antitranspirants? Give some example of it.

A: The transpiration process involves movement of water through plants and its evaporation from the…

Q: Give one example of selective toxicity used as an antimicrobial mechanism. Explain your answer

A: The selective toxicity of antibiotics is related to the effectiveness of the antibiotics against the…

Q: When might a broad-spectrum antimicrobial drug be a good treatment choice?

A: broad-spectrum antibiotic is an antibiotic that specifically acts on the two major groups of…

Q: Decimal Reduction time is a measurement of What percentage of a microbial population is removed…

A: INTRODUCTION Decimal reduction time Time required at the given condition or a set of condition to…

Q: The single most important measure to prevent the spread of disease is handwashing handwashing…

A: Diseases are abnormal conditions in the health of an individual. It can affect the structure or…

Q: Name and describe three mechanisms of acquired antimicrobial resistance tools that microbes may use…

A: Acquired antimicrobial resistance. The disease causing microbes  acquire resistance towards…

Q: List four mechanisms that bacteria have developed through mutation to resist antimicrobial drugs

A: Antimicrobial drugs or antibiotics are the chemicals that can kill or slow the spread of bacteria.…

Q: If you spread one agar plate with a lawn of staphylococcus epidermis and the other with a virulent…

A: The Kirby-Bauer test: It is known as the disk diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test. It is a test in…

Q: Which of the following is NOT a property of an antimicrobial agent? a. Must have a known…

A: An antimicrobial is a substance that destroys or inhibits the growth of microorganisms.…

Q: A term to describe physical treatments that kill microbes on items or surfaces would be…

A: Microbes are microorganisms that make up a large fraction of the atmosphere. They are present…

Q: Briefly explain the immunological responses to bacterial superantigens and explain how they differ…

A: By the Bartleby guidelines, only one question can be answered at at time. The first question has…

Q: What are three public health measures that could reduce the probability that bacteria will develop…

A: Antibiotic resistance has become a serious public health problem. Antibiotics are medications that…

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

A: Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms are everywhere in the environment. They are even inside…

Q: A pathogen that has an extremely low LD50 would be  Group of answer choices very contagious. very…

A: LD50 can be defined as the number of microbes required to kill 50% of the infected hosts.

Q: Infectious dose can determine whether or not an individual becomes ill with a given pathogen. True O…

A: Infection does can determine whether or not an individual become ill with a given pathoge , that is…

Q: Some antibiotics fail to kill/inhibit a pathogen simply because the microbe is naturally…

A: Some antibiotics fails to kill or inhibit a pathogen simply because the microbe is naturally…

Q: What is an antibiotic? 1.An organism that inhibits the growth of other organisms 2.A synthetic…

A: Antibiotics are antibiotics that are used to treat infections caused by bacteria in humans and…

Q: Which of the following is the most appropriate pairing of microbe and biosafety level?…

A: BSL 1 - bio safety level 1 -this type of Laboratories contain microbes that may or may not cause the…

Q: uestion  options: A) True B) False

A: Safety climate in hospitals is maintained by following standard precaution measures such as:1. Hand…

Microbial Isolation

Isolation of the microorganisms in microbiology is the process of developing a pure culture by separating one species of microbe from a mixture of many other species. A pure culture is a culture that contains only one species of microbe.