Microbiology: A Systems Approach
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ISBN: 9781259706615
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 12.3, Problem 18AYP
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Four antiprotozoal drugs and three antihelminthic drugs that are used today.
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Antihelminthic drugs are used to treatinfections caused by “parasitic worms” such as flukes, flat worms, tapeworms, and roundworms. Antiprotozoal drugs are used to treat infection of protozoans such as Plasmodium spp. responsible for malaria in humans.
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Microbiology: A Systems Approach
Ch. 12.1 - State the main goal of antimicrobial treatment.Ch. 12.1 - Identify sources of the most commonly used...Ch. 12.1 - Summarize two methods for testing antimicrobial...Ch. 12.1 - Prob. 4AYPCh. 12.2 - Prob. 5AYPCh. 12.2 - Describe the five major targets of antimicrobial...Ch. 12.2 - Identify which categories of drugs are most...Ch. 12.3 - Prob. 8AYPCh. 12.3 - Trace the development of penicillin...Ch. 12.3 - Prob. 10AYP
Ch. 12.3 - Prob. 11AYPCh. 12.3 - Prob. 12AYPCh. 12.3 - Prob. 13AYPCh. 12.3 - Identify the cellular target of quinolones, and...Ch. 12.3 - Prob. 15AYPCh. 12.3 - Prob. 16AYPCh. 12.3 - Prob. 17AYPCh. 12.3 - Prob. 18AYPCh. 12.3 - Describe two major modes of action of antiviral...Ch. 12.4 - Prob. 20AYPCh. 12.4 - Prob. 21AYPCh. 12.4 - Discuss at least three novel antimicrobial...Ch. 12.5 - Distinguish between drug toxicity and allergic...Ch. 12.5 - Prob. 24AYPCh. 12 - Prob. 1MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 2MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 3MCQCh. 12 - Microbial resistance to drugs is acquired through...Ch. 12 - Prob. 5MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 6MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 7MCQCh. 12 - Which of the following modes of action would be...Ch. 12 - Prob. 9MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 10MCQCh. 12 - Prob. 11TFCh. 12 - Prob. 12TFCh. 12 - Biofilms are difficult to treat and do not always...Ch. 12 - Prob. 14TFCh. 12 - Prob. 15TFCh. 12 - Construct a paragraph describing the...Ch. 12 - Prob. 2CTQCh. 12 - Antibiotic-resistance genes, as well as other...Ch. 12 - Prob. 4CTQCh. 12 - What is the significance of the bottom row in...Ch. 12 - Figure 12.5. Where could penicillinase affect each...Ch. 12 - From chapter 6, process figure 6.14a. Describe as...Ch. 12 - Prob. 1CM
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