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Triple antibiotic ointment usually contains bacitracin, polymixin and neomycin in a petrolatum base. There may be some other minor ingredients, but those are the "triple antibiotic" part of the ointment.

Those 3 antibiotics help to stop bacterial infections by both compromising the bacterial cell walls and also inhibiting the protein synthesis of the bacteria. The bacteria needs the its cell with to live and protein synthesis to grow and thrive.

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