Mammalian cells do not have a rigid cell wall - True
Patients should not take folic acid supplements when prescribed sulfa drugs - False
Cephalosporines kill bacteria by weakening the cell wall and promoting bacterial lysis. - True
Aminoglycosides inhibit folic acid production by the micro...
Nurse 5334 Test 1
Mammalian cells do not have a rigid cell wall - True
Patients should not take folic acid supplements when prescribed sulfa drugs - False
Cephalosporines kill bacteria by weakening the cell wall and promoting bacterial lysis. -
True
Aminoglycosides inhibit folic acid production by the microbe - False
Metronidazole inhibits DNA synthesis in certain microbes - True
Many drugs that are prescribed for HIV infection inhibit enzymes needed for viral
reproduction - True
MRSA, VRE, and C dif are a problem because infection with these microbes is usually
fatal - False
When patients take antibiotis as prescribed, resistance to antibiotics does not occur -
False
Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics by producing enzymes that inactivate the
macrobiotic. - True
If a bacterium changes its receptors, and antibiotic may not be able to bind to the
microbe and exert effects - True
The human body can make compounds that prevent an antibiotic from exerting the
desired effect - False
Some microbes can change so that they stop taking antibiotics into the cell - True
The New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase I (NDM-I) is common in people of Indian or
Pakistan descent. - False
Broad-spectrum antibiotics kill more competing organisms than do narrow-spectrum
drugs and do the most to facilitate emergence of resistance. - True
Narrow spectrum antibiotics tend to promote overgrowth of normal flora that possess
mechanism for resistance. - False
Infants do not have a well developed BBB and drugs can enter the CNS more readily
that in a child or adult. - False
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