Can antibiotics kill archaea, or is a different agent required?

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Can antibiotics kill archaea, or is a different agent required?

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Some antibiotics can kill some (but not all) archaea, and some archaea can be killed by some (but not all) antibiotics. However, archaea aren’t thought to be human pathogens, so antibiotics aren’t designed/developed to killed archaea and aren’t prescribed to patients with that purpose.

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