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Describe the term antibiotics

Describe in detail the term antibiotics?

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The Antibiotics are special and exclusive type of chemotherapeutic agents obtained from the living organisms like bacteria or fungi. Antibiotics are the metabolic product of one micro organism which in very small amounts is detrimental or inhibitory to the other micro organisms.

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