Defensins: An alternative for antibiotics?;Defensyny - Alternatywa dla antybiotyków?

Medycyna Weterynaryjna

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 763-767

  Bagnicka, Emilia ^a,b   Jóźwik, Artur ^a   Strzałkowska, Nina ^a   Krzyzewski, Józef ^a   Zwlerzchowski, Lech ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^b NONE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; defensins

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CAPRA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; OVIS; SUS;

EID: 34547419705     PISSN: 00258628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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