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Why do antibiotics work?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

which ones? their are dozens of classes of antibiotics all of which act in their own way. in general they all bind to a part of a bacterial cell that the bacteria needs to survive, and which humans don't have, so it it poison to bacteria and has little if any effect on us

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