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n. - An agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease adj. - Capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms.

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  • In 1898, he discovered haemolytic sera and showed that the mechanism of their action on foreign blood is similar to that by which an antimicrobic serum acts on microbes...
  • Bordet's early studies showed that antimicrobic sera include two active substances, one existing before immunization, known as alexine, and the other a specific antibody...
  • The development of all antagonistic substances which confer the special character on antimicrobic sera, as well as antitoxins, may be expressed as the formation of...
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