BI-303
Antibiotics
Biology · Secondary 3 · Medium · Antibiotics
Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by bacteria and can be treated with antibiotics. Why are antibiotics generally NOT effective against influenza viruses?
- Viruses have very thick cell walls that antibiotics cannot penetrate.
- Viruses do not have the cellular structures that antibiotics act on.
- Viruses are too large for antibiotic molecules to enter.
- Viruses contain no genetic material for antibiotics to destroy.
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