11. Controlling Microbial Growth

Why is it important to human health and wellbeing that we control microbial growth?

Physical methods used to control microbial growth include all of the following except?

What is the main difference between preservation and sterilization?

Which of the following concerning the varying levels of microbial control is false?

What similar problems are encountered with antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoan, and antihelminthic drugs?

How does commercial sterilization differ from sterilization procedures used in a hospital or laboratory?

Use the following choices to answer questions 3–5:

a. Bacillus coagulans

b. Byssochlamys

c. flat sour spoilage

d. Lactobacillus

e. thermophilic anaerobic spoilage

The spoilage of canned foods due to inadequate processing, accompanied by gas production.

Use the following choices to answer questions 3–5:

a. Bacillus coagulans

b. Byssochlamys

c. flat sour spoilage

d. Lactobacillus

e. thermophilic anaerobic spoilage

The spoilage of canned foods caused by G. stearothermophilus.

Outline the steps in the production of cheese, and compare the production of hard and soft cheeses.

Beer is made with water, malt, and yeast; hops are added for flavor. What is the purpose of the water, malt, and yeast? What is malt?

Why is a bioreactor better than a large flask for industrial production of an antibiotic?

Mark the following as true or false, and then correct the false statements so they are true.

a. Human cells make drug efflux pumps.

b. The minimum bactericidal concentration is the minimum concentration of the drug that kills at least 50 percent of the bacteria present.

c. The E-test can reveal if a drug is bactericidal or bacteriostatic.

d. A drug that is bactericidal at one dose may be bacteriostatic at another dose.

e. The antifolate combination therapy trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole may be used to treat protozoan infections.

Why is it challenging to obtain selectively toxic drugs against fungi, protozoans, and viruses?

You are collecting a sample from a deep wound for analysis by the clinical microbiology

lab. Which of the following is not a consideration as you undertake this process?

(NCLEX/HESI/TEAS)

a. Avoiding the skin as the wound is swabbed

b. Using an anaerobic culture tube

c. Disinfecting the tube before collecting the sample

d. Washing your hands before and after sample collection

e. Using complex media

Which of the following is (are) true? Select all that apply. (NCLEX/HESI/TEAS)

a. Scalpels are critical equipment.

b. Endoscopes are noncritical equipment.

c. Stethoscopes are noncritical equipment.

d. Anesthesia tubing is semicritical equipment.

e. Critical equipment contacts intact skin.