Prescription and over-the-counter medicines are designed to treat a wide range of health problems. what category of medicine is used to treat pathogens, or disease-causing microorganisms?
analgesics
antibiotics
antitoxins
vaccines

The answer is Antibiotics

Explanation:

Antibiotics are medications, as the name implies, that act against a number of germs and microorganisms that cause many of the diseases that affect humans. Thanks to its discovery by Alexander Fleming in 1928; began to control and treat some diseases of that time. Today, there is a wide variety of antibiotics and also a variety of responses of microorganisms to them. It is recommended not to take abusively to prevent the body from resisting them.

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