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Antibiotics - (Apr/21/2018 )

Are most antibiotics useful in treating viral infections? Why?

-rihnavy-

no, antibiotics are for treating bacterial infections

-mdfenko-

rihnavy on Sat Apr 21 23:19:14 2018 said:

Are most antibiotics useful in treating viral infections? Why?

Antibiotics are used against bacterial infections; while antivirals are used against viral infections.

-Steve Leumi-