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antibiotics can be obtained from micro organisms by fermentation or by semisynthetically and those can be called as natural. and some antibiotics can be prepared synthetically by series of chemical reactions. those are synthetic antibiotics. penicillin is natural antibiotic which is obtained from P. notatum so it is natural antibiotic. and chloramphenicol is synthetic

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