April 27, 2016
A virus is essentially an information system (encoded in DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protective coat and shaped by evolution to ensure its own replication and survival. Viruses grow only in living cells. But they infect everything from the simplest, single-cell organisms, such as amoebae, to multicellular, multi-organ ecosystems like us.
Bacteria, on the other hand, are cells in their own right and carry all the molecular machinery needed for their reproduction. As a consequence, they have unique biochemical pathways that can be targeted by broad-spectrum antibiotics. Antiviral drugs tend to be unique for the particular virus, or closely related family of viruses. This has made them much less available than antibacterial drugs......To Read More....
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