PATHOLOGY

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: -Next, all living things have metabolism. Viruses are too small and simple to collect or use their own energy – they just steal it from the cells they infect. Viruses only need energy when they make copies of themselves, and they don’t need any energy at all when they are outside of a cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why don’t antibiotics work on viruses? Viruses are different to bacteria; they have a different structure and a different way of surviving. Viruses don’t have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics; instead they are surrounded by a protective protein coat.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.