The Use and Abuse of Antibiotics

Title: The Use and Abuse of Antibiotics
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The Use and Abuse of Antibiotics
What is an antibiotic? What is this 'miracle drug' that everyone talks about? There is a lot about antibiotics that we should all be more aware of. <Tab/>The word 'antibiotic' actually means 'anti-life'. The most common definition that we use for an antibiotic is: any substance produced by a microorganism that harms or kills another microorganism. There are many different kinds of antibiotic substances, most of them are natural products …showed first 75 words of 1408 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1408 total…instructions from their physician and pharmacist, to the letter. Livestock industries should opt for probiotics instead of antibiotics and reduce their bulk use that seems unnecessary. If these measures are followed we may yet hold to this alarming bacterial invasion time enough to find a new 'miracle drug' to finish them off once for all. The areas of interaction that are covered in this essay are ATL, Health and Social Education, Environment and Homo Faber.

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