KROK 1 2023 – Question 75 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
Nosocomial pneumonia was diagnosed in a 38-year-old inpatient. The doctor prescribed the patient a broad-spectrum antibiotic that is resistant to β-lactamases, inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis in the bacterial membrane, and practically cannot be degraded by dehydropeptidase-1 in the renal tubules. What antibiotic did the patient receive?
- A. Levofloxacin
- B. Rifabutin
- C. Erythromycin
- D. Streptomycin
- E. Meropenem
Hint
Match the properties in the stem to a mechanism: which of the listed drugs act on the cell wall at all, and which of those is stable to beta-lactamases and to the renal tubular enzyme that inactivates imipenem?
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