Bcid Module 5 Quiz
Quiz questions covering the material in Module 5 of the Blood Culture Training series
- 1.Antimicrobial Stewardship programs are designed to do all of the following, except:
- A.
Reduce the cost of health care for infections
- B.
Increase natural selection of antimicrobial resistance
- C.
Promote optimal drug selection
- D.
Support de-escalation of antimicrobials when appropriate
- 2.Beta-lactam antibiotics have which of the following mechanism of action:
- A.
Inhibit cell wall synthesis
- B.
Inhibit nucleic acid synthesis
- C.
Inhibit bacterial conjugation
- D.
Inhibit protein synthesis
- 3.Which piece of information would not be helpful in determining appropriate antibiotic therapy?
- A.
Cell wall membrane scan
- B.
Resistance marker detection
- C.
Antibiogram
- D.
Antimicrobial susceptibility profile
- 4.All of the following technologies have Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) capabilities, except:
- A.
Cepheid GeneXpert
- B.
BD Phoenix
- C.
BioMerieux Vitek 2
- D.
BioMerieux Vitek MS MALDI-TOF
- 5.Biofire's mecA target includes the detection of the staphylococcal cassette mec junction.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Which of the following are gram-positive resistance marker(s) found on current molecular panels?
- A.
KPC
- B.
MecD
- C.
VanA/vanB
- D.
A and b
- E.
All of the Above
- 7.Which of the following are gram-negative resistance marker(s) found on current molecular panels?
- A.
MecA
- B.
IMP
- C.
OZO
- D.
CTX-M
- E.
B and d only
- 8.Which of the following bacteria is commonly found to be resistant to antibiotics?
- A.
Staphylococcus
- B.
Klebsiella
- C.
Enterococcus faecium
- D.
Only a and b
- E.
All of the above
- 9.What are outcomes of the recent Verigene BC-GP study publication covered in this training?
- A.
Increased length of stay with BC-GP
- B.
Decreased overall hospital costs with BC-GP
- C.
Significantly lower mortality with BC-GP
- D.
Increased duration of antibiotics use with BC-GP
- 10.Which of the following is a benefit of resistance gene detection over AST?
- A.
It is much faster
- B.
It shows physical response of bacteria to a specific dose of antibiotic
- C.
It relies on growth of the organism in culture
- D.
It tells the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotic to use
- 11.Gram-negative bacteria are usually more resistant to antibiotics than Gram-positive bacteria.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Bacteria that are susceptible to an antibiotic are not inhibited by the usual concentrations of the antimicrobial agent.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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