Mutations, black holes, and antivirulence genes

Microbe

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 388-394

  Maurelli, Anthony T ^a   Prunier, Anne Laure ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

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EID: 35349014223     PISSN: 15587452     EISSN: 15587460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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