Question

Prescription and over-the-counter medicines are designed to treat a wide range of health problems.

What category of medicine is used to treat pathogens, or disease-causing microorganisms?

Answer 1

Disease causing agents are viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, etc...

Categories of medicine used to treat these pathogens are:

Antibiotics
Antivirals
Antifungals
Antiparasitics

Answer 2

antibiotics

Step-by-step explanation:

Antibiotics are medicines used specifically for the elimination of bacteria (which are myorganisms and pathogens) without damaging our body cells. There are several different types of antibiotics to have an effect on all kinds of harmful bacteria in our body. They are medicines that work exclusively on bacteria and are not able to eliminate viruses and fungi.

The first antibiotic discovered was penicillin. She was discovered by accident by British microbiologist Alexander Fleming. He was studying for a way to prevent bacterial infections.