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  • Q:

    Antibiotics like azithromycin act against bacteria by binding and inhibiting their ribosomes. Antimycotics used against fungi generally avoid targeting ribosomes because:

     

    A

    fungal ribosomes are more resilient than bacterial ribosomes.

    B

    fungal ribosomes are much more similar to human ribosomes than bacterial ribosomes are to human ribosomes.

    C

    fungi do not use ribosomes, so targeting them would have no effect.

    D

    fungi cell walls prevent entry of antimycotics, so other means of infection treatment are necessary.



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