Question

Common cold is not cured by antibiotics because it is
(a) caused by a virus.
(b) caused by a Gram-positive bacterium.
(c) caused by a Gram-negative bacterium.
(d) not an infectious disease.

Answer 1

Common cold is not cured by antibiotics because it is

(a) caused by a virus
(b) caused by a Gram-positive bacterium.
(c) caused by a Gram-negative bacterium.
(d) not an infectious disease

Answer :- option (a)
common cold is caused by virus.


→ Antibiotics prevents the harmful bacteria from creating their cell wall. Because of antibiotics, the bacteria are unable to make their cell wall and thus, the WBCs are able to kill the bacteria easily and quickly.
Human calls and viruses don't make cell wall, so the antibiotics doesn't cause any harm to them. Thus, antibiotics are helpful in bacterial diseases only and not in viral disease.

→Some other diseases caused by viruses :-

» Influenza
» Dengue fever
» AIDS
» HIV

Answer 2

The correct answer is (a) caused by a virus
viruses doesn't use bacterial pathways and antibiotics is only for bacterial pathways


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