PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -FALSE. Antibiotics are pharmaceutical drugs (requiring a prescription) that kill bacteria or prevent them from reproducing. They have no effect against viral diseases (e.g. colds, flu, most forms of gastroenteritis), fungal conditions or parasitic infections (such as malaria).

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.