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The word "antibiotics" comes from the Greek anti ("against") and bios ("life"). The noun “antibiotic” was suggested in 1942 by Dr. Selman A. Waksman, soil microbiologist .
Antibiotics are used in medicine widely and frequently as a remedy for healing many diseases.
An antibiotic is a drug that kills or slows the growth of bacteria. Antibiotics are one class of antimicrobials, a larger group which also includes anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-parasitic drugs. Antibiotics are chemicals produced by or derived from microorganisms (i.e. bugs or germs such as bacteria and fungi). The first antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 in a significant breakthrough for medical science. Antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications in modern medicine.