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List any three uses of antibiotics.

The used of antibiotics are listed below:


(a) Antibiotics have a wide use in medicine to fight infections.


(b) Certain antibiotics are used as food preservatives, especially for fresh meat and fish.


(c) Some antibiotics are used in treating animal feed to prevent internal infections.


(d) Some antibiotics are used for controlling plant pathogens.


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Name the diseases prevented by:

(i) Salk’s vaccine …………………………………


(ii) BCG vaccine …………………………………


(iii) DTP vaccine ……………………………………

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Correct the following statements if they are false (without changing the first word).

(i) DDT is an antiseptic. ………………………………


(ii) Penicillin is a disinfectant. ……………………………


(iii) Disinfectants are applied on the body. ……………………………………………………………


(iv) Deodorants are both antiseptic as well as disinfectants. ……………………………………………


(v) Alexander Fleming discovered the first sulphonamide. ……………………………………


(vi) Antibiotics cannot be made synthetically. ……………………………………


(vii) Sulphonamides are now rarely used. ………………………………………………

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Penicillin is

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“T” in DTP vaccination stands for