What Are Antibiotics
What Are Antibiotics. They kill the bacteria or prevent them from growing and multiplying. The word antibiotics originated during mid 19th century (in the sense ‘doubting the possibility of life in a particular environment’): from anti- + Greek biōtikos ‘fit for life’ (from bios ‘life’). In other words, antibiotics are “against life”; in this case, against microbes…—antibacterials, antivirals, antifungals, and antiparasitics. […]
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