Question

how does antibiotics function to cure bacterial diseases? why are antibiotics not effective against viruses

Answer 1

Antibiotics destroy the cell wall of the bacteria which causes disease in our body.Thus, killing the bacteria.

Antibiotics are not effective against viruses because they do not have cell wall to be destroyed and the virus to be killed.

Answer 2

⇒ Antibiotics are commonly use to block biochemical pathways which is important for bacteria.

⇒ Many Bacteria make cell wall to protect themselves.

⇒ The antibiotic penicillin blocks the bacterial processes that build the cell wall.

⇒ As a result, The growing bacteria are unable to make cell wall and die easily.

⇒ But viruses do not use this path ways therefore antibiotic do not work against viral infection.