NURSE 5334 TEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025

Mammalian cells do not have a rigid cell wall - ANSWERTrue Patients should not take folic acid supplements when prescribed sulfa drugs - ANSWERFalse Cephalosporines kill bacteria by weakening the cell wall and promoting bacterial lysis. - ANSWERTrue Aminoglycosides inhibit folic acid production by the microbe - ANSWERFalse Metronidazole inhibits DNA synthesis in certain microbes - ANSWERTrue Many drugs that are prescribed for HIV infection inhibit enzymes needed for viral reproduction - ANSWERTrue The New Delhi Metallo-Beta-Lactamase I (NDM-I) is common in people of Indian or Pakistan descent. - ANSWERFalse Broad-spectrum antibiotics kill more competing organisms than do narrow-spectrum drugs and do the most to facilitate emergence of resistance. - ANSWERTrue Narrow spectrum antibiotics tend to promote overgrowth of normal flora that possess mechanism for resistance. - ANSWERFalse MRSA, VRE, and C dif are a problem because infection with these microbes is usually fatal - ANSWERFalse When patients take antibiotis as prescribed, resistance to antibiotics does not occur - ANSWERFalse Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics by producing enzymes that inactivate the macrobiotic. - ANSWERTrue