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Antibiotics are used to treat infectious diseases caused by what?
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∙ 13y ago
strep throat
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How do you treat diseases caused by bacteria?
With antibiotics.
What is the most common type of medicine used to treat the symptoms of an infectious diseases?
Antibiotics. But different antibiotics affect different germs.
What diseases are treated with antibiotics?
Antibiotics treat (and sometimes prevent) bacterial infections. They are not effective against infections caused by any other microscopic pathogens (such as viruses and fungi).
What is the diseases could you treat with antibiotics?
strep throat.
What diseases can be treated by antibiotics?
Tuberculosis Parasitic Diseases Streptococal Diseases Gram- negative infections; although those are often difficult to treat
Why are antibiotics not prescribed for viral diseases such as common cold?
Antibiotics only kill bacteria, they cannot be used effectively to treat a flu virus infection. Antibiotics don't affect viruses. Sometimes people with the flu develop secondary bacterial infections and then antibiotics may be given to treat or prevent this complication.
Can you stop malaria disease from antibiotics?
Malaria is neither neither a virus or bacteria or mycoplasma. Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections. Malariais a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans.
Antibiotics are used to treat what?
Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis. Antibiotics cannot treat viral infections such as HPV, herpes and HIV.
Which is easy to control infectious or non infectious diseases?
Non-infectious diseases are easier to control - because you only need to treat the individual patient. With infectious diseases - the illness is spread between people - by touching or simply breathing in the same air while in close contact.
What type of medicine is generally used to treat bacterial infections?
Most of the drugs that treat bacterial disease are called antibiotics.
How do you treat Iliacitis?
Ileitis can be caused by a variety of diseases including Crohn's Disease and Typhoid Fever. Treatment for Ileitis include antibiotics, bed rest, and a low fiber diet.
Why was pasteurization important?
Louis Pasteur was the man who discovered that the majority of Infectious Diseases are caused by germs. Before his discovery, doctors were not equipped to treat most illnesses because of not knowing what was responsible for causing them.
