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What are anti - biotic How do they work

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Antibiotics, also known as antibacterials, are medications that destroy or slow down the growth of bacteria. Antibiotics work by affecting things that bacterial cells have but human cells don't. For example, human cells do not have cell walls, while many types of bacteria do. The antibiotic penicillin works by keeping a bacterium from building a cell wall.

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