Bacteriocide
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A bacteriocide or bactericide is a substance that kills bacteria and, preferably, nothing else.
Bacteriocidal antibiotics kill bacteria: bacteriostatic antibiotics only slow their growth or reproduction.
Penicillin is a bactericide, as are cephalosporins. Aminoglycosidic antibiotics can act in both a bactericidic manner (by disrupting cell wall precursor leading to lysis) or bacteriostatic manner (by binding to 30s ribosomal subunit and reducing translation fidelity leading to inaccurate protein synthesis)