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Bacteria.
Antibiotics kill bacteria.
Bacterial pneumonia is treated with antibiotics.
Antibiotics have no effect on viruses.
There are several different treatments for some kinds of viral pneumonia -- such as pneumonia caused by any kind of influenza virus.
Other kinds of viral pneumonia have no known cure.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 7y agoAntibiotics are appropriate for treatment of bacterial infections, but NOT viruses.
If you have pneumonia, or a urinary tract (water) infection, these tend to be bacterial and can be treated with antibiotics.
However, viral infections, such as flu (influenza, swine or bird) are not treated by antibiotics, so don't expect then from your doctor for this.
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∙ 12y agoNo. Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria. Viruses are treated with a different line of drugs known as antivirals
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∙ 12y agoNo, antibiotics are only useful in treating bacterial infections.
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∙ 9y agoThe word antibiotic means something that acts against life. Viruses are not living and so antibiotics will not do anything to them.
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∙ 12y agoI guess.
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Do antibiotics affect bacteria or viruses?
bacteria
What are antibiotics and what are they used for?
Antibiotics are medicines that cure infections. They have no effect on viruses.
What type of infections can be treated with antibiotics?
Bacteria
How do diseases caused by bacteria and diseases caused by viruses react to antibiotics?
Disease caused by viruses cannot be cured by antibiotics. Antibiotics ONLY work on bacteria.
Why cant you use antibiotics to kill virus but bacteria can be killed by antibiotics?
Because bacteria and viruses are two completely different things. Antibiotics - as their name implies - will kill bacteria, but antibiotics simply have no effect on viruses.
Why can't antibiotics be used against viruses?
Because viruses are not bacteria. Antibiotics only work on bacteria. (Viruses are not actually alive . . . they enter a bacterium and take control of its function.)
Why are antibiotics unhelpful for fighting a common cold?
B. Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only kill bacteria
How do disease caused by bacteria and diseases caused by viruses by react to antibiotics?
Viruses ALL ignore antibiotics, Bacterial infections vary in their response depending on the sensitivity of the bacteria to the specific antibiotic.
Antibiotics are used to treat viruses.?
NO! Antibiotics have no effect at all on viruses and should never be used to treat viral infections and doing so accelerates the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Why cant antibiotics be used to to treat hiv or aids?
Antibiotics are only effective against bacteria, not viruses, and HIV is a virus.
Which microorganism not affected by antibiotics?
Bacteria are affected by antibiotics, that is the purpose of them.
What Prescription works on bacteria but not viruses?
Antibiotics :)
