HY USMLE Q #955 – Pharm

An 83-year-old man comes to the physician for a 2-day history of a sore ankle on the left. He frequently goes metal detecting. He recently finished a course of antibiotics for prostatitis. The agent responsible for this patient’s acute presentation most directly inhibits which of the following?

  Dihydrofolate reductase
  Dihydropteroate synthase
  DNA nicking
  Transcription
 Translation