Chapter 24. Drugs Used in Treating Infectious Diseases

Chapter 24. Drugs Used in Treating Infectious Diseases

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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Factors that place a patient at risk of developing an antimicrobial-resistant organism include:

1.	Age over 50 years
2.	School attendance
3.	Travel within the U.S.
4.	Inappropriate use of antimicrobials

____ 2. Infants and young children are at higher risk of developing antibiotic-resistant infections due to:

1.	Developmental differences in pharmacokinetics of the antibiotics in children
2.	The fact that children this age are more likely to be in daycare and exposed to pathogens from other children
3.	Parents of young children insisting on preventive antibiotics so they don’t miss work when their child is sick
4.	Immunosuppression from the multiple vaccines they receive in the first 2 years of life

____ 3. Providers should use an antibiogram when prescribing. An antibiogram is:

1.	The other name for the Centers for Disease Control guidelines for prescribing antibiotics
2.	An algorithm used for prescribing antibiotics for certain infections
3.	The reference also known as the Pink Book, published by the Centers for Disease Control
4.	A chart of the local resistance patterns to antibiotics developed by laboratories

____ 4. There is often cross-sensitivity and cross-resistance between penicillins and cephalosporins because:

1.	Renal excretion is similar in both classes of drugs.
2.	When these drug classes are metabolized in the liver they both produce resistant enzymes.
3.	Both drug classes contain a beta-lactam ring that is vulnerable to beta-lactamase-producing organisms.
4.	There is not an issue with cross-resistance between the penicillins and cephalosporins.

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