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Now take a deep breath, you've got this.

And no better way to get started than the mechanism of action for different antibiotics.

These are tested every year, and I can never remember them.

So first off, just to go into the inhibitors of cell wall synthesis.

These are penicillins, cephalosporins, carbopenums, monopactums, and vancomycin.

And the next category is the ribosome inhibitors for protein synthesis.

Now these are on every year, they always ask you if it's a 50s, if it's a 30s, if it inhibits

the 30s or the 50s, the sub-unit of the ribosome.

Unfortunately, there's not a good mnemonic for this.

It's hard to remember, so you just kind of have to memorize it.

So for the 30s ribosome, that's tetracycline, aminoglycoside, and lanazolid.

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