question_answer 5)

In which way microbes have played a major role in controlling diseases caused by harmful bacteria? 

Answer:

Antibiotics are the chemical substances which are derived from certain useful microbes and are employed to kill or retard the growth of disease-causing microbes. So antibiotics are being used in controlling a number of bacterial diseases like cholera, pneumonia, typhoid, syphilis, whooping cough, diphtheria etc.