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Antibiotics can be used to treat some viral infections.
a. True
b. False

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Answer: False

Step-by-step explanation:

Antibiotics cannot be used for the treatment of viral infections. Antibiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections only.

Antibiotics cannot be used to treat viral infections as it will not kill virus. Common illness that is caused by the bacteria like urinary tract infection, pneumonia, can be treated by antibiotics.

Antibiotics act by interfering the replication, transcription and translational machinery which could be either enzymes or complexes used during the processes. Since, viruses do not carry out these processes therefore antibiotics do not work on viral infections.

Hence, the given statement is false.

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