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Antibiotics should be able to kill (or at least stop) a bacteria without causing harm to the individual on the medicine. This proves to be difficult in many cases, because 1) Many systems in a bacterial cell are similar to our own cells, and 2) We do not know what unintended consequences a drug can have until animal (or human) trials. So, most antibiotics affect the cell wall of the bacteria (which humans don't have) or the ribosome (which is a bit different from ours).

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