MCQ IN MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Antibiotics are used to treat or prevent some types of bacterial infection. They kill bacteria or prevent them from reproducing and spreading. Antibiotics aren’t effective against viral infections.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Antibiotics do not work on viruses such as those that cause colds, flu, bronchitis, or runny noses, even if the mucus is thick, yellow, or green. Antibiotics can save lives, but they aren’t always the answer. Illnesses such as colds and flu are caused by viruses.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mixed infections of viruses and bacteria are not uncommon, and quite complex physiological changes can result from such infections.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.