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Write true or false for the following statements :

Antibiotics commonly block biochemical pathways important for bacteria. But viruses do not use these pathways at all, and that is the reason why antibiotics do not work against viral infections.

True

Viruses do not use biochemical pathways and as such it is no possible for antibiotics to act against viruses.


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