Antibiotics: Past, present, and future uearthing nature's magic bullets

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 114-122

  Hoel, Donna ^a   Williams, David N ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INFECTION; PENICILLINS; STREPTOMYCIN;

EID: 18844468813     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1997.01.139     Document Type: Article

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