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Highest number of antibiotics are produc...

Highest number of antibiotics are produced by

A

Bacillus

B

Penicillium

C

Streptomyces

D

Cephalosporium

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C
Streptomyces is the largest antibiotic-producing genus in the microbial world discovered so far. The number of antimicrobial compounds reported from the species of this genus per year increased almost exponentially for about two decades.
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