Which of the following statements about vancomycin is accurate?
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A 36-year-old woman recently treated for leukemia is admitted to hospital with malaise, chills and high fever. Gram stain of blood reveals the presence of gram-negative bacilli. The initial diagnosis is bacteremia and parenteral antibiotics are indicated. The records of the patient reveal that she had a severe urticarial rash, hypotension, and respiratory difficulty following oral penicillin V about 6 months ago. The most appropriate drug regimen for empiric treatment is
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Which one of the following antibiotics is likely to be most effective agent in the treatment of an infection due to enterococci if used in conjunction with penicillin G?
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Select the antibiotic with a high therapeutic index
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Sulfamethoxypyridazine and other related long-acting sulfonamides have now gone into disuse because
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The tetracycline safe in renal failure is
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Piperacillin differs from carbenicillin in the following respect(s)
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Your 23-year-old female patient is pregnant and has gonorrhea. The past medical history includes anaphylaxis following exposure to amoxicillin. Worried about compliance, you would like to treat this patient with a single dose, so you chose
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Cefotaxime has the following properties except
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Penicillin was first used clinically for systemic infections in the year
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa organism is always sensitive to
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Which of the following is not a semisynthetic penicillin?
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Tetracycline is stored in the body in
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Cyclophosphamide is used as an immunosuppressive in the following diseases EXCEPT:
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Beta-lactamase production by strains of Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae confers resistance against penicillin G. Which one of the following antibiotics is most likely to be effective against all strains of each of the above organisms?
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Which one of the following antimicrobial drugs does not require supplementation of dosage following hemodialysis?
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Which toxic effect of aminoglycoside antibiotics is most irreversible in nature?
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Clarithromycin is used for the following
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Tetracyclines are avoided in pregnancy because they can
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Anaphylactic shock to penicillin occurs
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Methicillin-resistant staphylococci do not respond to β-lactam antibiotics because
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All of the following statements regarding pentamidine isethionate are true except
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Which antimicrobial should be avoided in patients of liver disease?
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An 8-year-old child presented with brownish discolored and deformed anterior teeth. History of having received an antibiotic about 4 years earlier was obtained. Which antibiotic could be responsible for the condition?
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The primary mechanism underlying the resistance of gram-positive organisms to macrolide antibiotics is
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Which fluoroquinolone has markedly enhanced activity against gram-positive bacteria and anaerobes?
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The following agents are used to prevent or treat graft-versus-host disease EXCEPT:
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Roxithromycin has the following advantages over erythromycin except
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Oral neomycin and streptomycin are used for sterilization of bowel and for dysentery because
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Chloramphenicol is particularly effective in the treatment of
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The penicillin G preparation with the longest duration of action is
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Natalizumab is indicated in the treatment of refractory:
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Chloramphenicol is more active than tetracyclines against
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics have the following common property
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Which of the following agents is not a broad-spectrum antibiotic
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Cyclosporine is used for
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In the treatment of typhoid fever, ciprofloxacin has the following advantage(s)
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