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Q. The term antibiotic was first used by

AIPMTAIPMT 2003Microbes in Human Welfare

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The term antibiotics was coined by Waksman but the first known antibiotic, penicillin was extracted from fungi Penicillium notatum by Alexander Flemming in 1944. Antibiotics are the chemicals that are produced from the living organisms, used to kill another living organisms. About 2300 antibiotics discovered so far e.g. Streptomycin, Tetracycline etc.