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How are antibiotics made in chemistry

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Antibiotics are drugs that fight infections caused by bacteria in humans and animals.

Antibiotics can be produced from natural means from microorganisms, microorganism can produce substances that inhibit the action of bacteria, as does penicillin.

There are other kinds of antibiotics made in a laboratory, those are called "semi-synthetic". These antibiotics are extracted from microbes and then enhanced in the laboratory by chemical modification.

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