Antimicrobials and the skin physiological and pathological flora

Current Problems in Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2006, Pages 35-41

  Elsner, Peter ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; TEXTILE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; SKIN; TEXTILES;

EID: 33750108925     PISSN: 14215721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000093929     Document Type: Review

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