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bacteria is complit cell or contain cellular material hence specific antibody riquar as compair to virus is difrance
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoAntibodies within the body fight both bacteria and viruses. Antibiotics kill bacteria and not viruses. Antibiotics do not fight viruses because viruses are not alive.
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How do antibodies work to kill bacteria but not viruses?
they engulf them
What is the difference between and antiviral drug and an antibiotic drug?
No. Antivirals work to limit the reproduction of viruses, and antibiotics work to kill bacteria. Antivirals do not kill bacteria, and antibiotics do not kill viruses.
Why is it important to know whether your sore throat is cause by a virus or bacteria?
You have to know the cause to know how to treat it. There are specific treatments that kill bacteria, and others that block the activity of viruses. Practically none of them work against BOTH viruses and bacteria.
Why is it important to know whether your sore throat is caused by a virus or bacteria?
You have to know the cause to know how to treat it. There are specific treatments that kill bacteria, and others that block the activity of viruses. Practically none of them work against BOTH viruses and bacteria.
Why can you not kill flu with antibiotics?
Antibiotics are only for killing bacteria, they do not work on viruses which are the cause of the flu. Bacteria are living organisms and so poisons and chemicals can actually kill them. But flu viruses are non-living organisms so they can not be killed, they can only be inactivated by damage or physical blocking by antibodies (made by our immune systems) of the shapes of the structures viruses use to attach to a host's cells. Viruses need a host's cells to use to reproduce, if they can not attach to the cells, they will be inactivated. Antibiotics are not capable of inactivating them.
Do antibiotics work against bacteria?
antibiotics are useful against bacteria because they help to kill off the nasty bacteria or they can also stop the bacteria from reproducing - so the illness doesn't get worse. this then gives your body time to make antibodies which will eventually distroy the bacteria. after this, you won't get the disease again because you are immune to it.
How does the MMR vaccine work?
The MMR Vaccine contains tiny doses of living but inactivated viruses that cause measles, mumps and rubella. Once these viruses are injected into the body, the immune system will develop certain antibodies against these three diseases shortly following vaccination. Because your body has memory cells it now knows how to defeat these diseases when they enter the body again, and it will know which certain antibodies it needs to produce; these antibodies in your body will give a lifelong protection against these diseases.
What are antibodies what do they do?
Antibodies are cells that help the immune system fight off virus and sometimes bacteria. Vaccines are created from the antibodies of viruses that host them. For example a flu vaccine is made of the antibodies of various flu viruses. With the exception of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, a typical virus only lasts only a couple of days and give off antibodies for your body to work with its white blood cells to fight infection. When a person becomes ill even with a mild cold your body immidiatly creates anti bodys from the white blood cells. This anti bodys mould themselvs around the bad bacteria and engulf it. the white blood cells then know that if the same bacteria returns it can be faught off straight away.
Can azithromycin cure the flu?
No. Azithromycin is an antibiotic. Antibiotics only work to kill or control growth of bacteria. The flu is not caused by bacteria, so antibiotics are ineffective to treat it. Influenza is caused by viruses.
How do antiseptics work to kill bacteria?
You use them on your hands to kill bacteria. Examples are Hand sanitizers, or soap now how they work to kill them is another question, well they for example inactivate the bacteria remove them make the bacteria "blowup", and they can stop bacteria from growing.
Why doesn't anibodies work on viruses?
Actually, antibodies do work on viruses, if they are the right ones.The question you probably are trying to ask is 'why don't antibiotics work on viruses ? 'The reason is that antibiotics work on bacteria by interfering with some part of the bacterium's metabolic machinery. A good and simple example is penicillin, which prevents many bacteria from building a cell wall.Tricks like this don't work on viruses because they don't have any metabolic machinery. They are almost naked DNA. This hijacks the metabolic machinery of the cells that they invade; the cell is tricked into making many copies of the virus until the cell bursts open and a flood of new viruses looks for new cells to invade.
Why do antibiotic work against bacteria but not viruses?
It is certainly possible to find a toxic cemical that kills everything, which would include bacteria, viruses, and us as well. The whole trick of antibiotics is to find something that does kill bacteria but doesn't harm the person whose bacterial infection we are treating. In order to do this we have to find some chemical reaction that bacteria use in their normal metabolic processes, but that people do not use. So antibiotics are very closely tailored to the specific biochemistry of target bacteria. Viruses have quite different biochemistry.
