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Can viral infections be treated without antibiotics?
OH HECK NO BUDDY!! Don't treat viral infections with an antibiotic!!! Go to the doctor and stop self-prescribing medications. You are going to land up making antibiotic-resistant bacteria in your body and that can be serious or even fatal for you!!!
Why would a drug damage capsids help treat viral infection?
capsids prevent viral infections apex they stop viral infections from reproducing
Antibiotics are used to treat viral infections like the flu True or False?
Antibiotics kill bacteria. Antivirals kill viruses. However, a patient with a viral infection might sometimes be given antibiotics to reduce the work the patient's defenses have to do or to stop opportunistic infections.
Which of the following is the best treatment for a virus?
Thing is that actually their aren't any cures for viral infections. Sure we can slow/ stop viral reproduction with medication, but it doesn't kill the pathogen, as for example antibiotics do with bacteria.
What can be effective in preventing viral infection in humans?
Wearing masks, practicing good hand hygiene, maintaining physical distance from others, and getting vaccinated are effective ways to prevent viral infections in humans. Vaccination is especially important as it provides immunity against specific viruses.
Why are most viruses not lethal?
While I have not seen numbers indicating that most viral infections are not lethal, it seems a reasonable assertion. (please don't consider my answer authoratative since I am drawing upon general knowledge of the Immune System and virology rather than specific research on the question) The primary method of cellular anti-viral action is the interferon response. Viruses generally display counter-measures to the induction of this response. However, they are imperfect and invariably some viral derived material that can induce the response "slips by". As this material accumulates, the interferon response is induced and anti-viral activity is commenced which includes stoppage of all RNA production (stop viral transcription and replication), apoptosis (the infected cell kills itself), and the signalling of neighboring cells to enter an antiviral state. So, it is essentially a race between the virus' ability to replicated and infect other cells, and the induction of the Interferon Response. Given that most viral infections are not lethal, one can conclude that the Interferon Response wins the race most often. However, one most also consider the Adaptive Immune response which also clears viral infections. It's onset is generally observed to start 96 hours post infection. (leading one to wonder if its the antibiotics we just took or the adaptive immune response that clears our bacterial infections so quickly ;) )
If you were a scientist developing a drug that would block viral replication which step would you choose to block.... Explain?
I would choose to block the step of viral entry into host cells. By preventing the virus from entering the host cell, we can stop the replication cycle from proceeding further. This strategy would effectively contain the infection and reduce viral load in the body.
Getting bystanders involved is the most effective way to what?
stop bullying
What is one property of viruses that makes it difficult to cure viral infections?
One major problem that makes a viral infection so hard to cure is that they mutate so rapidly. It also hard to find drugs that will work. Tamiflu is an antiviral that acts against an enzyme that the virus needs to break out of the host cell and spread but many viruses are so simple that there are very few ways to stop them.
Why would a drug that damages capsids help treat a viral infection?
capsids prevent viral infections apex they stop viral infections from reproducing
Why would a drug that damages capsids help treat?
capsids prevent viral infections apex they stop viral infections from reproducing
Why is it hard to treat a viral disease?
That is true but viral infections stay dormant in the body until the nucleic acids can enter a cell then spreading itself throughout the body. Viral infections can not be cured unlike bacterial infections. Bacterial infections enter the body by air... thus entering the bloodstream going to any part of the body. The bacteria may even have a specific place in the blood it may want to go. Antibiotics were made to cure bacterial infections to stop replicating, growing or to even die. Therefor Viral infections can not be cured making the hard to treat then bacterial infections
