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Sulfanilamides are applied as antimicrobal agents in clinical practice. Sulfanilamide treatment, however, can result in hemolytic anemia development in patients that suffer from genetic defect of the following enzyme of pentose phosphate metabolism in erythrocytes:

Answer options

  1. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
  2. Transketolase
  3. Transaldolase
  4. Hexokinase
  5. Pyruvate kinase
Correct answer

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

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