Do a search online or look in your textbook for 1-2 antibiotics that affect Gram-positive bacteria...

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  1. Do a search online or look in your textbook for 1-2 antibioticsthat affect Gram-positive bacteria and list them. On what part ofthe cell do the antibiotics usually work? List one or twoantibiotics that affect Gram-negative bacteria? On what part of thecell do the antibiotics usually work? (Be sure to cite your sourcesin your answer.)

(textbook is openstax microbiology)

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Two of the antibiotics that affect Grampositive bacteria are Vancomycin and Teicoplanin These antibiotics interfere with the cell wall synthesis of bacteria Vancomycin tightly binds to the D alanyl D alanine residues of the    See Answer
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