Question

Bacterial encephalitis and meningitis are difficult to treat because Group of answer choices the infections move along peripheral nerves. antibiotics damage nervous tissue. many antibiotics cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier. it is very difficult to determine the causative microbe. no medications exist for treatment of these infections.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer will be option-many antibiotics cannot penetrate the blood-brain barrier

Explanation:

Meninges is the membrane which surrounds the spinal cord and the brain and the infection of the meninges is thus called meningitis and Encephalitis is the inflammation of the brain. These two diseases are caused by the micro-organism which could be viruses, bacteria or fungus.

The treatment of the disease is difficult sometimes as the entry of the drug into the brain through the cellular membrane of the capillaries is inhibited like in the case of penicillin which is polar and finds difficult to cross the membrane.

Thus, the selected option is the correct answer.