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A virus causes an infection. It is the actual file that causes the infection. An infection itself is the action or state of the computer's security being compromised by a virus or other malware.
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What is the difference between viral and a bacteria infection?
As simple as that a viral infection is caused by a virus and a bacterial infection is caused by a bacteria.
How can you tell the difference between a virus and an infection?
A virus is an organism consisting of DNA or RNA and sometimes of a protective coating. An infection is a condition when a virus, bacteria, or fungus grows largely unchecked within the body of a much larger organism and causes that larger organism to become ill or to die.
What is the difference between symptoms and infection?
Inflammation- the body's response to injury. Infection - the invasion of bacterias , virus ... into our body. Infection is disease caused by a specific inciting organism (virus, bacteria, prion, parasite, etc.). Inflammation is the body's response to an irritation which may be infectious, chemical or autoimmune.
What is the difference between thread and virus?
A virus runs in a thread, as do all programs. The difference between a generic thread and a virus is that the thread may not be harmful, while the virus generally is.
What is the difference between a common animal virus and a retrovirus?
The difference between a common animal virus and a retrovirus is that a retrovirus only contains RNA while a common animal virus will have DNA or RNA.
Is a yeast infection a virus?
Yeast infection is caused by fungi, not by a virus.
Is there a difference between amoxicillin and amoxicillin trihydrate?
what is the difference is it for a ear infection
Are viruses and infections the same thing?
They are definitely not the same. First of all, there are many other agents that can cause infections (bacteria, protozoa, fungi, prions). Then there is also a difference between a virus and a viral infection, the former being the agent of infection, the latter the process of infection itself.
What is the difference between a pathogenic bacteria and a virus?
A pathogenic bacterium is alive while a virus is not.
Differences between bacteria and virus?
Bacteria is live and a virus is not. This also means that only a bacteria infection or illness can be killed with antibiotics.
What is the difference between computer virus and a human body virus?
Computer virus' attack switches whereas human virus' affect cells.
What is the difference between AIDS and HIV?
The difference between HIV and AIDS is that HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. You can be a carrier of the HIV virus and not contract the disease but you can infect others.
