What is the relationship between the zone of inhibition and antibiotic concentration and what is the most effective antibiotic based on this table?

Q: Which of the following are associated with the origin and spread of antibiotic resistance?

A: Explanation are given below

Q: Based on class data only, which antimicrobial has the broadest spectrum? Which one has the narrowest…

A: An antimicrobial is an agent that kills or stops the growth of micro-organism. Antimicrobial…

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: Why does a precipitate form on Sierra’s medium when inoculated with a lipolytic organism? Discuss…

A: Nutrient mediums are used to provide growth to the microorganism in invitro experiments. These…

Q: significance of determination of MIC with respect to antibiotic

A: MIC generally provides information about the minimum concentration of antibiotic that is required to…

Q: how to determine the MIC of an antibiotic against a bacterium?

A: Introduction: Antibiotic: It is a medicine that destroys or slows down the growth of the bacteria.…

Q: Why do we need to look up values in the charts for each antibiotic?

A: Antibiotics have definitely transformed the lives of countless individuals by rescuing them from…

Q: From your final year project, you have isolated novel Streptococcus species that produce heat stable…

A: Nisin which is the result of Lactococcus lactis is the oldest known and most deeply analyzed and…

Q: what is the mechanism of action and spectrum of activity of Levofloxacin? is this antibiotic…

A: Antibiotics are antibacterial that kills the bacteria (bactericidal) or slows down the growth of…

Q: Compare the action of microbicidal and microbistatic agents, providing anexample of each.

A: Below outlined is difference in the mode of action seen in case of microbicidal and microbiostatic…

Q: What are the two most Resistant, and the two most Sensitive microbial structures to antiseptic…

A: Biocides:  It is the term used to portray the chemical entity or the living organic entity that can…

Q: What factors influence the size of the zone of inhibition for an antimicrobial?

A: Testing of effectiveness of anti microbial drugs against microbes are important in identification of…

Q: What are the three major ways bacteria resist antibiotics? Do any of these tend to be correlated…

A: The three major ways bacteria can resist antibiotics is  (1) Enzymatic degradation of the…

Q: What does the zone of inhibition imply? Does the measurement of the zone of inhibition imply that…

A: Antibiotic Sensitivity Test ( AST) is a test used to detect best Antibiotic for eradication of…

Q: What is the reason for using sterilized filter paper in CHORIOALLANTOIC MEMBRANE (CAM) Assay?

A: The formation of new blood vessels from pre-existing vessels or endothelial cell progenitors is…

Q: What would happen if an ampicillin reagent is added to an Lysogeny broth agar plate that is below 50…

A: Ampicillin is an antibiotic which enables the synthesis of the peptidoglycan of bacterial cells wall…

Q: Compare and contrast the method for determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) with the…

A: Microbiology is the branch of biology that deals with study of organisms that are too small to be…

Q: In the antibiotic disc diffusion study, the "Minimal Inhibitory Concentration" or MIC of the…

A: Antibiotic disc diffusion study is also known as the Kirby-Bauer method in which the…

Q: What is superbugs and how does it occur? What are specific ways to avoid antibiotic resistance?

A: What is superbugs and how does it occur? A superbugs are strains of any type of microorganism, (…

Q: You are testing a potential new antibiotic for its effectiveness at killing Streptococcus…

A: Drugs are medications that are taken in the prescribed amounts under the supervision of doctors to…

Q: Can you thoroughly explain the effect of Sulfanilamide and para-aminobenzoate on the growth of…

A: Sulfanilamide and para -aminobenzoate are use to treat bacterial infections.

Q: Name five functional traits of microorganisms. What dose the functional diversity describe? Do we…

A: Functional traits of the microbes describe individually expressed phenotypes or characteristics of…

Q: How can we determine the antagonistic effect of a bacterium on another bacterium?

A: Antagonistic interactions in bacteria result in one species not being able to grow/ survive or show…

Q: What is the action mechanism of the antibiotic penicillin?

A: Antibiotics are the class of molecules that kills or inhibits the pathogenic microbes and their…

Q: How can the use of chemical agents contribute to bacterial antibiotic resistance?

A: Bacteria are prokaryotic organisms that are unicellular and devoid of the cellular organelle like…

Q: What is the major source of antibiotics and what appears to be thenatural function of antibiotics in…

A: Step 1: Antibiotics, also called as antibacterials, are substances that destroy bacteria or slow…

Q: How do you measure antibiotic sensitivity?

A: Antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the sensitivity or resistance of a bacteria…

Q: Neosporin consists of neomnycin, bacitracin, and polymyxin B. Which component(s) can inhibit Gram…

A: Antibiotics are medicines that kill harmful living organisms, majorly microorganisms. The term…

Q: What are other methods of measuring the sensitivity of organisms to antibiotic?

A: An antibiotic is a substance that kills or inhibits the growth of bacteria and other microorganisms,…

Q: S. urens E.coli LOT 1008934 20 22 06 2021-11-29 BIOMERIEUH MHE MHE LOT 1008934920 22 07 2021-11-2…

A: Antibiotic susceptibility test is done to check the sensitivity of a particular bacterium to a…

Q: How can drug resistance in microorganisms be circumvented?

A: The uselessness of a treatment, such as an antibiotic or antineoplastic, for curing a disease or…

Q: Which of the following antibiotics exhibit the greatest antibacterial efficacy in the Kirby-Bauer…

A: According to Bartleby guidelines,  we are supposed to attempt first question in case of multiple…

Q: What is the mode of action of bacitracin?  How does this influence the types of bacteria it can be…

A: Introduction:- Microorganisms such as bacteria, fungus, and protozoans are killed or inhibited by…

Q: What is Pindolol drug solubility in water, acidic medium, basic medium?

A: Pindolol is a non selective beta blocker, mainly used in the treatment of hypertension, angina.  It…

Q: How many milliliters of antibiotics (83.7 mg per 5mL) are needed to give a patient a total dosage of…

A: Antibiotics are medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals.They work by killing…

Q: Is Penicillin a weak antibiotic?

A: The antibiotics are antimicrobial substances. It is active against the bacteria. It is the medicine…

Q: Describe some mechanisms of antibiotic action and antibioticresistance

A: Antibiotics:- The word Antibiotics consists of two words "anti" and "biotics" which means against…

Q: Discuss the four main mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and factors that promote the emergence of…

A: Antibiotic resistance occurs when microorganisms like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to…

Q: With some level of toxic shock syndrome caused by the superantigen produced by Staphylococcus…

A: Staphylococcus aureus - It is round shaped, gram positive bacteria, member of Firmicutes, generally…

Q: What bacterial structural target would make an antibacterial drug selective for gram-negative…

A: The gram-negative bacteria don't retain the crystal violet stain that's why called gram-negative.

Q: If you have 4 compounds and you test them for antimicrobial activity using a disk diffusion assay…

A: The disk diffusion assay is a culture based microbiology assay to determine the susceptibility of…

Q: What is bacterial promiscuity and how does it contribute to the general problem of antibiotic…

A: Antibiotics are the medicines which are used to cure infections which are caused by bacteria. These…

Q: how is the 0.5 McFarland standard prepared? What is the role of this standard in performing…

A: Antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST) are microbial sensitivity tests that determine the…

Q: What are the tests to determine the level of antimicrobial activity of a antimicrobial agent? How…

A: Antibiotic disc diffusion study is also known as the Kirby-Bauer method in which the susceptibility…

Q: What are two possible reasons for choosing a bacteriostatic treatment over a bactericidal one? Name…

A: Q)What are two possible reasons for choosing a bacteriostatic treatment over a bactericidal one?…

Q: What critical limiting factors are used in the production of penicillin?

A: Penicillins are a group of antibacterial drugs. These are originally obtained from Penicillium molds…

Q: What is the mechanism of an antibiotic removal device (ARD)?

A: Blood cultures are prepared to detect the presence of a pathogenic microbe in the blood. If the…