The term antibiotics was coined by__.

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Antibiotics are a group of medicines that are used to treat infections caused by germs (bacteria and certain parasites). They do not work against infections that are caused by viruses, eg. common cold or flu. Selman Waksman, the microbiologist who discovered streptomycin, coined the term antibiotics in 1942.

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