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Chapter 12 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases/ Bioterrorism

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____ work to treat infections by interfering with bacterial cell wall synthesis, inhibiting bacterial protein synthesis, interrupting nucleic acid synthesis, or interfering with metabolism.
If you are trying to determining if a patient has a disease by growing an organism on an artificial media such as an agar plate, you are preforming what is known as a ____
___ uses the host’s own immune system to prevent of treat disease.
There is a class of antivirals developed solely to treat ____
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Novel or exotic diseases can be introduced to susceptible/nonindigenous populations at a ____ rate
Potential agents of ___ have been categorized into three levels based on risk of use, transmissibility, invasiveness, and mortality rate.
Antifungal agents typically target the ___ membranes of fungi
___ primarily target viral DNA or RNA, in an effort to treat disease.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA probe hybridization, and real-time PCR are three methods of DNA and RNA ____ that can identify infectious agents.
An indirect means of identifying an infection by examining the host’s serum antibodies.