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How will the prescribed penicillin kill s. Pyogenes that is causing shelly’s infection?.

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Penicillin kills bacteria by inhibiting the proteins which cross-link peptidoglycans in the cell wall (Figure 8). When a bacterium divides in the presence of penicillin, it cannot fill in the “holes” left in its cell wall.
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