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How do antibiotics work ​

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Answered by paroshnee18
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Answer:

Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do.

Explanation:

There are different types of antibiotic, which work in one of two ways:

A bactericidal antibiotic, such as penicillin, kills the bacteria. These drugs usually interfere with either the formation of the bacterial cell wall or its cell contents.

A bacteriostatic stops bacteria from multiplying.

Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibiotic penicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall. ... Some antibiotics dissolve the membrane of just bacterial cells.

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Answered by priyanka23582
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Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't.

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