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The use of chemicals or drugs of any kind to treat disease is broadly called:Read the answer and worked solution →Paul Ehrlich searched for a compound that killed microbes without harming the:Read the answer and worked solution →Compound 606, discovered in Ehrlich's laboratory, was an effective treatment for:Read the answer and worked solution →The first synthetic antimicrobial created, the foundation of a whole drug family, was:Read the answer and worked solution →A drug developed from a chemical not found in nature is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →The first natural antibiotic, discovered by Alexander Fleming, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Fleming discovered penicillin in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →The two scientists who worked out how to scale up penicillin production were Florey and:Read the answer and worked solution →Fleming, Florey and Chain received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in:Read the answer and worked solution →A chemically modified derivative of a natural antibiotic is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Selman Waksman showed the antimicrobial capability of a group of soil bacteria called:Read the answer and worked solution →A drug that only stops bacteria from growing, letting growth restart after it is removed, is:Read the answer and worked solution →A drug that actually kills its target bacteria is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →The range of bacteria a drug can act against is called its:Read the answer and worked solution →A drug that targets only specific subsets of bacterial pathogens is:Read the answer and worked solution →Broad spectrum antimicrobial use may allow an overgrowth of other microbes, causing a:Read the answer and worked solution →Drugs attacking peptidoglycan are safe for us because human cells do not make it. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Beta lactam antibacterials work by blocking the crosslinking of peptide chains in the bacterial:Read the answer and worked solution →The major classes of protein synthesis inhibitors target which two ribosomal subunits?Read the answer and worked solution →Rifampin can be used safely because bacterial RNA polymerase differs structurally from the:Read the answer and worked solution →The disk diffusion test used to check whether a microbe is susceptible to a drug is the:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Kirby Bauer assay, the clear circle around a drug disk is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the antibiotic pioneersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the drug targetsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the antimicrobial gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the drug wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Natural or madeRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the antimicrobial factsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Antimicrobials bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The use of chemicals or drugs of any kind to treat disease is broadly called:

  1. Chemotherapy
  2. Chemosynthesis
  3. Chemoreception
  4. Chemotaxis
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Correct answer: A. Chemotherapy

1. The word is often linked only with cancer treatment. 2. Its original meaning is much wider. 3. That term is chemotherapy. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 14, Antimicrobial Drugs._

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Paul Ehrlich searched for a compound that killed microbes without harming the:

  1. Plasmid
  2. Patient
  3. Pathogen
  4. Parasite
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Correct answer: B. Patient

1. A useful drug must spare the host. 2. That was the aim of his magic bullet. 3. So it must not harm the patient. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 14, Antimicrobial Drugs._

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Compound 606, discovered in Ehrlich's laboratory, was an effective treatment for:

  1. Syphilis
  2. Smallpox
  3. Scabies
  4. Scurvy
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Correct answer: A. Syphilis

1. It was the first successful synthetic antimicrobial. 2. It treated one bacterial disease. 3. That disease was syphilis. _Source: OpenStax Microbiology, Chapter 14, Antimicrobial Drugs._

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