7. The following is an article about a young man who died of plague in 2015. Bas

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7. The following is an article about a young man who died of plague in 2015. Based on the information provided, you can correctly determine that this very unfortunate death was due to ______.

DENVER (AP/CBS4) – When a Larimer County teen came down with a high fever and muscle aches, his family thought he had the flu. But he was dead within days and the rare cause was only revealed later. Taylor Gaes had been infected with the plague, likely by fleas that put the bacteria directly into his blood stream, making it difficult to spot in time to stop its spread. The 16-year-old died June 8, but the cause was only made public late Friday when health officials, at the urging of the boy’s parents, put out a warning to make sure others who may have visited his family’s rural home near Fort Collins hadn’t been sickened by the fleas that could have infected him.

a. bubonic plague

b. primary pneumonic plague

c. septicemic plague

d. secondary pneumonic plague

8. Which of the following is/are beta-lactam drugs? (Choose all correct answers.)

sulfa drugs

penicillins

cephalosporins

bacitracin

aminoglycosides

vancomycin

11. Which, if any, of the following is NOT true of methicillin?

a. methicillin inhibits PBP2a (penicillin-binding protein 2A)

b. methicillin resembles D-Ala-D-Ala

c. methicillin prevents cross-linking in the peptidogly

d. can All of the above are true of methicillin.

Explanation / Answer

Answere :

7. The correct option is (a) i.e. Bubonic plague. It is transmitted via infected flea, Xenopsylla cheopis (the rat flea).

8. Penicillin and cephalosporins are the example of beta-lactam drugs.

9. The option (d) is correct i.e all the above statement are true about methicillin.

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