How does antibiotics to kill the bacteria
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In order to be useful in treating human infections, antibiotics must selectively target bacteria for eradication and not the cells of its human host.
Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cellsdo not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibioticpenicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.
Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cellsdo not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibioticpenicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.
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Many antibiotics, including penicillin, work by attacking the cell wall of bacteria. Specifically, the drugs prevent the bacteria from synthesizing a molecule in the cell wall called peptidoglycan, which provides the wall with the strength it needs to survive in the human body.
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