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This quiz contains 10 questions from a mix of 1 subtopics.
A _________ is a drug that is used to prevent, treat or relieve the symptoms of disease.
antibody
hallucinogen
medication
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What is a pathogen?
A substance that damages cells
An organism that transfers a disease from one organism to another
A microorganism that causes disease
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Do painkillers help to cure the underlying disease?
Yes
No
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Which of the following types of drugs are used to relieve the symptoms of disease?
Antibiotics
Painkillers
Statins
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Which of the following drugs are used as painkillers?
(Select all that apply)
Simvastatin
Aspirin
Paracetamol
Penicillin
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Which of the following measures could help to reduce the spread of antibiotic resistance?
(Select all that apply)
Giving more antibiotics to farm animals
Doctors only prescribing antibiotics for serious bacterial infections
Patients taking antibiotics for the full prescribed course
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Which type(s) of organisms can antibiotics kill?
Viruses
Bacteria
Protoctists
Fungi
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How do antibiotics help to cure bacterial infections?
They bind to pathogens and encourage our immune cells to destroy them
They directly kill bacterial cells
They reduce the symptoms caused by the bacteria
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True or false? Different antibiotics are effective against different strains of bacteria.
True
False
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Occasionally, bacteria can evolve so that antibiotics no longer kill them.
In these cases we say that the bacteria has developed .
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