The incubation period is the time: it takes to cure a disease between infection and appearance of symptoms between the start and finish of symptoms it takes for antibiotics to begin fighting disease

Will treating a viral infection with antibiotics affect the course of the infection? a) no; antibiotics work by inhibiting enzymes specific to bacteria. antibiotics have no effect on eukaryotic or virally encoded enzymes. b) no; antibiotics do not kill viruses because viruses do not have dna or rna. c) yes; antibiotics activate the immune system, and this decreases the severity of the infection. d) yes; antibiotics can prevent viral entry into the cell by binding to host-receptor proteins.