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Old 01-06-2009, 01:56 PM
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Bert thanks for that information, very interesting. Will read the paper when I have more time.

Dave, my understanding is that bacteria and viruses have different molecular and protein structures coupled with different mechanisms of infection; as a consequence antibiotics will have no effect on a virus anyway (the antibiotics prevent genesis of cell walls in the bacteria BUT viruses don't have cell walls, as far as I understand). So I guess it's code brown!!

Kerrie

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