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How do antimicrobials work?

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There are various approaches, the most common being puncturing the pathogens cell membrane (pathogen become leaky and its insides streams out) or an attack on its metabolism. Examples of the last are for example stop of oxygen exchange (pathogen suffocates), energy production (not able to produce energy any more to keep necessary processes running), or reproduction (anti-virals).

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