Explain how a bacterial toxin that cleaves snare proteins

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Assignment:

1. You have been infected with the pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum, and the hospital clinician has prescribed an intravenous (I.V.) antibiotic with a beta-lactam ring structure. Based on the mechanism of this class of drug, would you expect this treatment to be effective? Explain your answer.

2. Explain how a bacterial toxin that cleaves snare proteins at the neuromuscular junction can cause disease.

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