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Is it true that all antibiotics are obtained from microbes?

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Yes, antibiotic are the chemical substances produced by microbes like bacteria and fungi. These microbes produce them to compete with other microbes i.e to kill other microbes. Humans have harvested these antibiotics from them to treat various infections.

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