why penicillin not effect on viruses
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Antibiotics are used against bacterial infection and they cannot kill viruses. The structure and mode of the proliferation of viruses are different from that of bacteria. Antibiotics destroy the cell wall of bacteria or target the growth machinery of bacteria.
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Viruses are surrounded by a protective protein coating; they don't have cell walls that can be attacked by antibiotics like bacteria does. It is because of this that antibiotics don't work on viruses
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