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How do antibiotics kill bacteria?
Thu, 2010-04-08 17:05 — sciencestaff
Katrine Mellersh, Durham
Lots of chemicals kill bacteria (bacteriocidal compounds), or slow down their replication (bacteriostatic compounds), for example bleach or cyanide. The trick is finding those that don’t do the same to humans. These ‘antibiotics’ can work in many ways: they simply need to disrupt something specific to bacterial biochemistry.
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