Antimicrobial resistance is one of the leading threats to human health and the practice of modern medicine. It is estimated that antimicrobial resistance could cause 10 million deaths a year by 2050. Increasing antibiotic resistance potentially threatens the safety and efficacy of surgical procedures and immunosuppressing chemotherapy leading to negative impact on patient outcomes such as prolonged morbidity, hospital stay, and increased risk of death.

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1. If Pseudomonas and anaerobes are isolated in a venous leg ulcer, the patient should always be treated with antibiotics?

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2. If a patient’s urine smells ‘strong’, they must have an infection and need antibiotics?

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3. Do not start antibiotics without clinical evidence of bacterial infection?

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4. Broad spectrum antibiotic use promotes C. difficile infections?

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5. Unnecessary or inappropriate antibiotic prescribing increases the emergence and spread of resistant bacteria?

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6. Take appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

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7. Always use IV antibiotics for 5 days before switching to oral?

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8. IV antibiotics should be reviewed on a daily basis?

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9. Antibiotics remove the need for surgical or other intervention?

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10. What is the nearest approximate percentage figure for the proportion of patients with penicillin allergy who may also be allergic to cephalosporins?

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11. Which antibiotic(s) can be used in a patient who has had an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin? (Tick all that apply)

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12. Which of these drugs are penicillins or penicillin related? (tick all that are)

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13. Which of the following are NOT effective in preventing the emergence or spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens

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14. Which of the following is NOT a current example of clinically important antibiotic resistance?

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15. Which of these conditions have become harder to treat because of antibiotic resistance?

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16. Which of the following conditions should generally be treated with antibiotic therapy in patients who are not immunosuppressed and not pregnant?

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17. Which of the following is NOT a way that a bacterium can acquire antibiotic resistance?

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18. Which of these antibiotics have useful clinical activity against Pseudomonas? (Tick all that apply)

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19. Which of these would be suitable to treat Gram positive cocci isolated from a blood culture? (Tick all that apply)

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20. Which of these conditions is an indication for therapy?

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21. Which of these blood culture results most likely represents a contamination and should NOT automatically be treated with antibiotics?

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22. Which of these conditions needing IV antibiotics could be referred to an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) team? (Tick all that apply)

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