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What is difference between antibiotics and medicine?

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Answered by rudraverma86pdmdpg
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“Drug” is a general name given to a chemical used for the treatment of a any disease.

Antibiotics are the chemicals obtained naturally or synthetically produced to act against certain bacteria causing infection. If they act against a specific bacteria only, termed as narrow spectrum whereas those act on a number of bacteria are termed as broad spectrum.

All Antibiotics are Drugs but all Drugs are not Antibiotics.

Drug is a generic term used to describe the medicines prescribed by medical practitioners. In the common usage, the term refers to the recreational substances.

Antibiotics are a specific class of drugs used to treat infections, in particular, infections caused by bacteria.

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