The complexities of antibiotic action
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The complexities of antibiotic action
Antibiotics are arguably the most successful medicine on the planet, but the one under huge threat from antibiotic resistance in the face of diminishing new antimicrobial discovery efforts (Hancock, 2007). One of the great hopes for discovering new antibiotics arose when whole-genome sequencing came of age in 1995 with the decoding of the Haemophilus influenzae genome, followed rapidly by those...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Systems Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1744-4292,1744-4292
DOI: 10.1038/msb4100184