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Why can not antibotics can not be use to treat viruse or prions?
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∙ 13y ago
Most drugs which target bacteria work by targeting specific enzymes which they inhibit and thus prevent vital protein formation by the bacteria. Viruses do no have these enzymes so they are unaffected.
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