Clinicians often use the strategy of Blank______ to treat infections, where a combination of the patient's symptoms, local epidemiology, and preliminary observations provide a good clue to the basis of the infection, even if the identity of the infectious agent is not known.Multiple choice question.antimicrobial chemotherapyinformed best guessprophylactic antibiotic usebroad spectrum antibiotic

The term antimicrobials describes Blank______.Multiple choice question.a drug given to prevent illness in someone at risk for infectionany drug that works against microbes, no matter which microbes are targetsa drug that works against a wide variety of microbesa drug that works only against bacteria

A state of inactive infection is called Blank______.Multiple choice question.sourcecarrierlatencyreservoirsequelae

Antibiotics in the penicillin class kill bacteria by inhibiting production of Blank______.Multiple choice question.the cell wallflagellabacterial proteinsbacterial DNA

The causative agent of influenza is a Blank______.Multiple choice question.fungusbacteriumprotistvirus

A pathogen identified in a patient's blood sample is found to lack a phospholipid bilayer.  Therefore, any medications used to treat the disease caused by this pathogen would most likely be classified as:A.antiprotozoal drugs.B.antifungal drugs.C.antiviral drugs.D.antibacterial drugs.