Discuss the metabolic requirements for growth of each microbe and select one antibiotic (bacteria), antiviral (virus) or anti-fungal (fungi) agent, depending on the pathogens that you selected. Discuss the mechanism of action by which the drug kills or inhibits the growth of the selected pathogen.

Be sure to look on your library bookshelf for many useful books that will help you begin your research! Try A Concise Manual of Pathogenic Microbiology, Antibacterial Agents: Chemistry, Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Clinical Applications, and/or Fungal Infection: Diagnosis and Management to begin your research.