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Drotrecogin2228 t1_is1jdh8 wrote

Reply to comment by Majestic_Electric in Antibiotic found in potato disease thwarts fungal infections by Sariel007

Antibiotic refers to anything that kills microorganisms. All antifungals are antibiotics, not all antibiotics are antifungals.

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RadsCatMD t1_is2qgtu wrote

It's literally in the name.

Anti- against; -biotic- life like.

Technically, chemotherapeutics are also antibiotics. They're just really bad at preferentially killing external microorganisms.

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