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dankpiece t1_is2963m wrote

Reply to comment by JustSikh in Antibiotic found in potato disease thwarts fungal infections by Sariel007

So you could say an antibiotic can be used to treat viruses? That's confusing

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MOdruid t1_is2fmca wrote

Only if you consider viruses a living organism, which no one reasonable does.

So no, no one who knows what they're talking about would say that.

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Majestic_Electric t1_is2zq0k wrote

Viruses aren’t considered living creatures because they can’t reproduce on their own (they need to hijack an animal cell to do it). So no, it wouldn’t work on viruses. For this reason, doctors won’t (and shouldn’t) prescribe antibiotics to treat a viral infection.

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HinaEater t1_is4mp74 wrote

No. Biotic= life. Virus= not really classified as living.

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