BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
VIRUSES
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They should be given a shot of the anti-viral drug.
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They should be given a sugar pill that does not contain the anti-viral drug.
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They should be given a pill that is half sugar pill and half anti-viral drug.
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They should be given a shot that is is half anti-viral drug and half sugar.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Antiviral drugs that directly target the viruses include the inhibitors of virus attachment, inhibitors of virus entry, uncoating inhibitors, polymerase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, inhibitors of nucleoside and nucleotide reverse transcriptase and the inhibitors of integrase.
Detailed explanation-2: -Antivirals can’t get rid of the virus, which stays in your body. However, antiviral medicines can make the virus latent (inactive) so that you have few, if any, symptoms. Symptoms that develop while you take antivirals may be less severe or go away faster.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the quest of an effective antiviral drug, the most specific target for an RNA virus is the RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase (RdRp) which shows significant differences between positive-sense and negative-sense RNA viruses.
Detailed explanation-4: -Antiviral drugs can be classified according to their chemical nature (e.g., small-molecules, peptides, biologics) or mechanisms of drug actions against specific viral proteins (e.g., polymerase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, glycoprotein inhibitors).