Antiviral medications questions

Questions on Antiviral medications

1. Discuss the essential differences between a bacterium and a virus.

2. State two reasons why it is difficult to treat viral diseases effectively with antiviral drugs.

3. Drugs like acyclovir and ganciclovir are two drugs used to treat diseases caused by the herpes virus.

Describe the two main ways in which anti-viral drugs can fight specific viral infections.

4. AZT (azidothymidine or zidovudine) is used to treat HIV. Identify the three circled functional groups labelled A, B and C contained within a molecule of AZT.

AZT

5. The structures of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza), two drugs used to combat influenza, are given in Section 37 of the data booklet. Identify which:

(a) contains an ester group

(b) contains a non-cyclic ether group

(c) contains a carboxyl group

(d) could be classified as an alcohol

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