What are antibiotics

What are antibiotics? Briefly define the term. Give some examples of antibiotics.

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The Antibiotics are special and unique kind of chemotherapeutic agents obtained from the living organisms like fungi or bacteria. Antibiotics are the metabolic product of one micro-organism that in much small amounts is detrimental or inhibitory to the other micro-organisms.

Ampicillin, Erythromycin, Tetracyclin, Bacitracin, Cephalosporins and Vancomycin are some examples of antibiotics.

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