'Think like a bacterium': A helpful concept to prolong the antibiotic era?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 177-180

  Hamilton Miller, J M T ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ALAFOSFALIN; ALGINIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; MEPACRINE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOLOGY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; FIMBRIA; GENE DELETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031954033     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1998.tb00664.x     Document Type: Article

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