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Bactericide




Bacteriocidal antibiotics only slow their growth or reproduction.

Penicillin is a bactericide, as are cephalosporins.
Aminoglycosidic antibiotics can act in both a bactericidic manner (by disrupting cell wall precursor leading to lysis) or bacteriostatic manner (by binding to 30s ribosomal subunit and reducing translation fidelity leading to inaccurate protein synthesis)