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A. how is each target selectively toxic to kill microbes without harming the host?
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A. how is each target selectively toxic to kill microbes without harming the host?

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- Bacteria are encased in a cell wall, if they didn't have on they would absorb water, swell and burst
- Penicillin's and cephalosporin's weaken cell wall and cause lysis, since mammalian cells have no cell wall these drugs do not affect them
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