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Mechanisms of antibiotic actions

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Penicillins   Drugs that inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis or activate enzymes that disrupt the cell wall  
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Cephalosporins   Drugs that inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis or activate enzymes that disrupt the cell wall  
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Imipenem   Drugs that inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis or activate enzymes that disrupt the cell wall  
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Vancomycin   Drugs that inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis or activate enzymes that disrupt the cell wall  
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Amphotericin B   Drugs that increase cell membrane permeability  
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Daptomycin   Drugs that increase cell membrane permeability  
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Ketoconazole   Drugs that increase cell membrane permeability  
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Aminoglycosides   Drugs that cause lethal inhibition of bacterial protein synthesis. Bactericidal inhibitors of protein synthesis  
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Clindamycin   Drugs that cause nonlethal inhibition of protein synthesis. Bacteriostatic inhibitors of protein synthesis  
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Erythromycin   Drugs that cause nonlethal inhibition of protein synthesis. Bacteriostatic inhibitors of protein synthesis  
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Linezolid   Drugs that cause nonlethal inhibition of protein synthesis. Bacteriostatic inhibitors of protein synthesis  
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Fluoroquinolones   Drugs that interfere with bacterial DNA and RNA  
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Metronidazole   Drugs that interfere with bacterial DNA and RNA  
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Rifampin   Drugs that interfere with bacterial DNA and RNA  
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Sulfonamides   Antimetabolites  
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Trimethoprim   Antimetabolites  
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