René dubos, a harbinger of microbial resistance to antibiotics

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 559-580

  Moberg, Carol L ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZOIC ACID; GRAMICIDIN; PENICILLINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; TYROTHRICIN;

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOST RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 0033278123     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1999.0011     Document Type: Article

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