Alan V replied: "ampicillin is a pencillin derivative that acts to inihbit the final cross-linking event in peptidoglycan sysnthesis. Because Bacillus is gram positive it is preferentially killed this way: without peptidoglycan ded in the outer cell wall, the cell loses integrity and the "osmotic" potential of the contents within cause the cell to lyse.
sorry i'm not too familiar with the others"