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Tilly2 | 15:15 Mon 23rd Jul 2012 | Body & Soul
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What is the difference between antibiotics and antimicrobals? I thought microbes and bacteria were the same thing
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Antimicrobials work, not just against bacteria, as antibiotics do, but also against viruses, fungal infections, protozoan infections (malaria for example).
Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial, but not all antimicrobials are antibiotics.
15:38 Mon 23rd Jul 2012
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Both are basically the same.
15:26 Mon 23rd Jul 2012
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Antimicrobials work, not just against bacteria, as antibiotics do, but also against viruses, fungal infections, protozoan infections (malaria for example).
Antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial, but not all antimicrobials are antibiotics.
15:38 Mon 23rd Jul 2012
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Thank you both.
17:53 Mon 23rd Jul 2012

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