Medicines that are used to treat bacterial infections are called.

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Antibiotics are the drugs which help to treat bacterial infections. They affect the biochemical pathways used by different microbes and make them susceptible to death. For example, penicillin blocks the biochemical pathway of bacteria which helps in building cell wall.

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