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Why antibiotics work only against bacteria and not against viruses?
Asked by Adarsh | 12 Mar, 2016, 07:33: PM
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Bacterial pathogens can be killed using antibiotics. Antibiotics work by interrupting metabolic pathways in bacteria preventing the proper formation of a cell wall, and others prevent bacteria from completing cell division. Viruses can not be killed by antibiotics because viruses lack metabolic pathways. Viruses can reproduce without having their own metaboloic pathways by infecting eukaryotic organisms which are not affected by antibiotics.
Answered by Sivanand Patnaik | 13 Mar, 2016, 05:11: PM
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