What is difference between antibiotics and vaccines?

Answer 1

An antibiotic actually kills the bacteria that are infecting the host. A vaccine causes the host to develop immunity to a virus. Antibiotics must be taken again if a new infection develops. Vaccines usually cause permanent immunity.

Answer 2

Vaccines are injected into our bodies so that our bodies can build antigens to combat a certain virus. They are usually created from dead viruses, or, most recently, they can be live viruses that have been synthetically altered so that they adapt to cold environments. These cold-adapted viruses are then injected through the nose, where your body starts to build up antigens. Since our lungs are very warm, the cold-adapted viruses will not infect our lungs as they will die in warm environments.

In contrast, antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infection. They WILL NOT treat viral infections, such as the flu virus, H1N1, or the common cold. Many people think that antibiotics can treat the cold or flu, but in reality, they are harming the users because (1) they don't make the user feel any better, and (2) their use of antibiotics can lead to antibiotic resistance, so in the future, if the user had a bacteria infection, the antibiotic may not work for them since the bacteria may be resistant to the antibiotic.

If that was too much information, the most important thing to know is: an antibiotic treats bacteria infection and a vaccine helps a person build resistance to a virus (vaccines don't kill viruses).

Answer 3

Anti means against. Bios means life. Antibiotic means against life. It kills organisms. Antibiotics are generally used against bacteria. Antibiotics HELP the body fight an infection.

Vaccines stimulate the body to produce active immunity to attack organisms if they enter the body. Vaccines are made to fight both bacterial and viral diseases. They use whatever portion of the organism the body recognizes as foreign (the antigen) to cause the immune response.

************not exactly************ antibiotics assist the body to fight infections ***********An antibiotic is used to treat/cure an infection, while vaccines are used to prevent illness before it starts.

Antibiotics are a drug made specifically to kill a bacterial germ, used on an as needed basis. While vaccines are a dead/diluted form of the virus (illness) that triggers an immune response in the body, to prevent the virus from infecting the host. ************ not exactly************* vaccines are for both viruses and bacteria *************

Answer 4

A vaccine is a preparation of pathogens that delivers antibodies to the person or animal injected with it.
An antibiotic is a medication, a drug that kills, interferes with or stops reproduction of bacteria.

Answer 5

A vaccine is a substance that contains an antigen to which the immune system responds. Antigens can be derived from living but attenuated (weakened) organisms, dead organisms, or parts of organisms.

When the vaccine is administered, the immune system recognizes it as foreign and produces antibodies, or sometimes cytotoxic T cells, and memory cells.
This immune response is the same as the one that occurs during the course of a disease. The disease itself does not occur either because whole organisms are not used or because they have been sufficiently weakened to have lost their virulence.
In other words, vaccines retain important antigenic properties but lack the ability to cause disease.

In the 1940s Selman Waksman, the discoverer of streptomycin, defined an antibiotic as a chemical substance produced by microorganisms which has the capacity to inhibit the growth of bacteria and even destroy bacteria and other microorganisms in dilute solution.
In contrast, agents synthesized in the laboratory are called synthetic drugs.

Answer 6

Antiobiotics treat bacterial infections, and vaccines prevent viral infection.

Answer 7

Vaccine is given to prevent a certain disease while antibiotic is mainly given to treat infections that are already present. However, some antibiotics are also given to serve as prophylaxis.

Answer 8

Vaccines are given to help prevent an illness or infection, providing primary immunity. Once one has an infection, antibiotics may be given to help your body kill off an infection.