Diphtheria toxin

The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 245-256

  Oram, Diana Marra ^a   Holmes, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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