Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Because he discovered penicillin, Alexander Fleming is often referred to as the “Father of Chemotherapy.”
2. Bacteria can become drug resistant as a result of transduction, transformation, or conjugation.
3. All antimicrobial agents are antibiotics.
4. Administering an antibiotic to a patient to treat one type of infectious disease could actually cause other types of infectious diseases in that patient.
5. Bacteria that acquire the genes that code for an MDR pump become multidrug resistant.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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