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What is the difference between bactericidal and bacteriostatic agents?

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1 bactericidal are solutions used to Kill micro organism by killing the cell walls. while in the other hand bacteriostatic agent is used to inhibit the growth of micro organisms by interfering with their cellular metabolism like replicating their DNA reproduction.

2 bactericidal decreases the number of bacteria in the body while the other does not rather it decreases the growth of it.
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