1. What are the two ways to treat an infectious disease?
2. Why is it important to know the categories of infectious agent?
3. What is an antibiotic? Give two examples.
4. How does an antibiotic work? Explain by giving one example.
5. Why antibiotics do not work against viral infections?
6. Why making anti-viral medicines is harder than making antibacterial medicines?
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Answer:
1.)There are primarily two ways to treat a disease: 1. Reduce the effect of the disease: Medicines are provided to reduce the pain or bring down the fever. In other words, symptomatical treatment may help to reduce the impact of a disease, but it might not outright cure it.
2)The answer is that these categories are important factors in deciding what kind of treatment to use. Members of each one of these groups – viruses, bacteria, and so on – have many biological characteristics in common
3)An antibiotic is an antimicrobial drug that is active against bacteria. It is derived from living matter or micro-organism, that can be used to kill or prevent the growth of other micro-organisms. ... Two examples of antibiotics are- penicillin and chloramphenicol
1. If bacteria cause a disease, treatment with antibiotics usually kills the bacteria and ends the infection. Viral infections are usually treated with supportive therapies, like rest and increased fluid intake. Sometimes people benefit from antiviral medications like oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu®).
2. The answer is that these categories are important factors in deciding what kind of treatment to use. Members of each one of these groups – viruses, bacteria, and so on – have many biological characteristics in common.
3. An antibiotic is an antimicrobial drug that is active against bacteria. It is derived from living matter or micro-organism, that can be used to kill or prevent the growth of other micro-organisms. ... Two examples of antibiotics are- penicillin and chloramphenicol.
4. Antibiotics are a group of medicines that are used to treat infections caused by some germs (bacteria and certain parasites). They do not work against infections that are caused by viruses - for example, the common cold or flu.
5. Viruses can't reproduce on their own, like bacteria do, instead they attach themselves to healthy cells and reprogram those cells to make new viruses. It is because of all of these differences that antibiotics don't work on viruses.
6. Making anti-viral drugs is more difficult than making anti-bacterial medicines because viruses have very few biochemical mechanisms of their own.