MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The antibiotics have no effect on viruses because viruses show no metabolism of their own. The antibiotic has no “target” to attack in a virus, they have effect on bacteria. A virus is not a living cell.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Antibiotics don’t fight viruses – they fight bacteria. Using antibiotics for viruses can put you at risk of getting a bacterial infection that is resistant to antibiotic treatment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Antibiotics damage the cell wall of living organisms leading to their death. The viruses do not have a cell wall. Antibiotics are produced by bacteria and fungi that treat bacterial infections, not viral infections because viruses use host cells to perform their activities. So, they cannot kill viruses.

Detailed explanation-5: -Viruses lack a metabolism and therefore cannot be treated with antibiotics. Some strains of bacteria have evolved with genes that confer resistance to antibiotics and some strains of bacteria have multiple resistance.