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Penicillins fight bacteria by slowing metabolic functions vital to bacterial cell wall formation and by stimulating production of enzymes that eventually destroy cell walls. They affect only actively multiplying bacteria. The most common penicillins used to fight sinusitis are amoxycillin and amoxycillin-clavulanate.

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