Antimicrobial Stewardship — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: The disc diffusion method for antibiotic susceptibility testing is applied in the _____ method.

Answer: Kirby Bauer

Flashcard 2: Community acquired MRSA is _____drug resistant and more virulent

Answer: mono

Flashcard 3: Burkholderia cepacia is resistant to _____ gen. cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, polymyxin and carboxypenicillins

Answer: first and second

Flashcard 4: Which mycobacterium species is innately resistant to Rifampin?_____

Answer: M. abscessus

Flashcard 5: Enterococcus faecium is _____ common and more likely to be resistant to vancomycin (more or less)

Answer: less

Flashcard 6: When a subset of the total microbial population is resistant, despite the total microbial population being susceptible on testing, the phenomenon is called as?  _____

Answer: Heteroresistance

Flashcard 7: _____ genes are responsible for FQ resistance

Answer: gyrA and gyrB

Extra: 

Flashcard 8: _____ gene from vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus to S. aureus is an example of transposition.

Answer: VanA

Flashcard 9: Resistance in MRSA is mediated by _____ gene which is coded on the chromosome

Answer: mecA