GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Viral diseases respond to antibiotics; bacterial diseases do not.

Detailed explanation-2: -Infection, often the first step, occurs when bacteria, viruses or other microbes that cause disease enter your body and begin to multiply. Disease occurs when the cells in your body are damaged-as a result of the infection-and signs and symptoms of an illness appear.

Detailed explanation-3: -Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria germs and can only treat sickness caused by bacteria, also known as a bacterial infection. This includes strep throat, urinary tract infections (UTI) and many skin infections. Antibiotics don’t work on sickness caused by virus germs, also known as a viral infection.

Detailed explanation-4: -Viruses and bacteria also have a different structure and a different way of surviving. Viruses are surrounded by a protective protein coating; they don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics like bacteria does. It is because of this that antibiotics don’t work on viruses.

Detailed explanation-5: -The body reacts to disease-causing bacteria by increasing local blood flow (inflammation) and sending in cells from the immune system to attack and destroy the bacteria. Antibodies produced by the immune system attach to the bacteria and help in their destruction.