A. Conjugation
B. Rarefaction
C. Transduction
D. Transformation
Related Mcqs:
- For a bacterium to be seriously considered in the etiology of dental caries, it must______________?
A. Exist regularly in the dental plaque
B. Produce extracellular amylopectins
C. Be lethal for gnotobiotic animals
D. Produce intracellular dextrans - Ability of an orthodontic wire to spring back to its original shape is evaluated by_____________?
A. Brittleness
B. Resilience
C. Tensile strength
D. Toughness - An oxidase-positive, gram-negative rod which produces a bluish-green pigment has been grown in culture from a swab obtained from an infected burn wound. This organism is susceptible to gentamicin, ticarcillin and tobramicin, but resistant to all the other antibiotics which of the following organisms is it likely to be ?
A. Escherichia coli
B. Klebsiella pnemoniae
C. Proteus miribilis
D. Pseudomonas aeruginosa - A diabetic patient developed cellulitis due to staphylococcus aureus, which was found to be Methicillin resistant on the antibiotic sensitivity testing. All of the following antibiotics will be appropriate EXCEPT________________?
A. Vancomycin
B. Imipenem
C. Teichoplanin
D. Linezolid - A patient has seasonal allergic rhinitis and is on terfenadine, He develps cardiac arrhythmias after a course of antibiotics. Which of the following antibiotic could have been given_____________?
A. Ampicillin
B. Tetracyclin
C. Erythromycin
D. Co-trimoxazole - Which one of the following antibiotics chelates with calcium ?
A. pencillin
B. Tetracycline
C. Cephalosporins
D. Erythromycin - Which of the following antibiotics is effective in treating oral candidiasis ?
A. Nystatin
B. Bacitracin
C. Penicillin
D. Tetracycline - The group of antibiotics which possess additional anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory activities is_____________?
A. Tetracyclines
B. Polypeptide antibiotics
C. Fluoroquinolones
D. Macrolides - B-lactam antibiotics are_____________?
A. Penicillin
B. Imipenem
C. Cephalosporins
D. All of the above - Which of the following antibiotics is most frequently associated with pseudomembranous colitis ?
A. Ampicillin
B. Penicillin
C. Clindamycin
D. Cephalosporin
