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Read this article to learn about the applications of antibiotics. Antibiotics are particularly important as antimicrobial agents for chemotherapy. A large number of bacterial diseases have been brought under control by use of antibiotics. These include pneumonia, cholera, tuberculosis and leprosy. The antifungal antibiotic griseofulvin has controlled the debilitating fungal skin diseases such as ring worm. Besides serving as antimicrobial [...]

Read this article to learn about the antibiotics and its production. Antibiotics are the chemical substances that can kill microorganisms or inhibit their growth, and are therefore used to fight infections in humans or animals. Most of the antibiotics are produced by microorganisms (i.e. product of one organism that can kill other organism). Certain semi-synthetic antibiotics are the chemically modified [...]