The term antimicrobials describes Blank______.Multiple choice question.a drug given to prevent illness in someone at risk for infectionany drug that works against microbes, no matter which microbes are targetsa drug that works against a wide variety of microbesa drug that works only against bacteria

Phagocytes that are the most abundant leukocytes and destroy bacteria with antimicrobial agents are called Blank______.Multiple choice question.monocyteseosinophilsbasophilsneutrophils

Antibiotics in the penicillin class kill bacteria by inhibiting production of Blank______.Multiple choice question.flagellathe cell wallbacterial DNAbacterial proteins

A bacterium that is unaffected by an antibiotic drug is said to be a bacterium.

Which of the following is not one of the three main ways microbes evade antimicrobial drugs?ANSWERLimit production of peptidoglycanPump drugs outAlter the drug’s targetInactivate drugs

Clinicians often use the strategy of Blank______ to treat infections, where a combination of the patient's symptoms, local epidemiology, and preliminary observations provide a good clue to the basis of the infection, even if the identity of the infectious agent is not known.Multiple choice question.antimicrobial chemotherapyinformed best guessprophylactic antibiotic usebroad spectrum antibiotic