Fleming's Unfinished

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 529-538

  Wainwright, Milton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACILLUS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; EXTRACT; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOULD; NONHUMAN; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SARCINA; SIMULATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM; SARCINA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0036428829     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2002.0065     Document Type: Review

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