Why is there not a clinical distinction between bacteriostatic and bactericidal antibiotics?

What will be an ideal response?


An antimicrobial drug that is bactericidal for one pathogen may be bacteriostatic for another. Furthermore, a drug's bactericidal or bacteriostatic properties can change based on the drug dose, length of the drug regimen, pathogen load, and route of administration.

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a. chlorophytes. b. cladophorophytes. c. chaetophytes. d. charophytes. e. coccinophytes

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Auxin

A) promotes cell division. B) stimulates flowering. C) promotes phototropism. D) causes the development of an abscission layer. E) inhibits stem elongation.

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The overall equation for the cellular respiration of glucose is

A) C5H12O6 + 6 O2 ? 5 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy. B) 5 CO2 + 6 H2O ? C5H12O6 + 6 O2 + energy. C) C6H12O6 + 6 O2 ? 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy. D) C6H12O6 + energy ? 6 CO2+ 6 H2O + 6 O2.

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The regulation of expression of the C. elegans gene lin14 by lin4 was one of the first known animal examples of

a. a gain-of-function mutation. b. nested genes. c. a riboswitch. d. an antisense gene. e. RNA interference.

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