What are Antibiotics and their Safe Use? - Antibiotics

What are Antibiotics and their Safe Use? - Antibiotics: All of us are very familiar with the word ‘’Antibiotic’’. As we definitely used this once in our life. But many of us are not aware that actually what is antibiotic? An Antibiotics are those medicines which we used for treatment of infections caused by bacteria. But it does not treat viral infections. Antibiotics works by killing bacteria (bactericidal) or inhibiting them from reproduce (bacteriostatic).

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