lecture 17 - antiviral & antifungal drugs

Question 1

What is the overall mechanism of action of antiviral drugs?

Answer 1

They inhibit virus replication by inhibiting specific viral proteins

Question 2

What are the 2 forms that fungi grow in?

Answer 2

Yeasts, moulds

Question 3

Why are many anti-fungal drugs quite toxic humans?

Answer 3

Because fungi are eukaryotes like humans, and are therefore very metabolically similar. Many drugs that target cell metabolism will also affect human cells.