Antibacterial inhibitors of the essential cell division protein FtsZ

Antibiotic Discovery and Development

Volumn 9781461414001, Issue , 2012, Pages 957-968

  Czaplewski, Lloyd G ^a   Stokes, Neil R ^a   Ruston, Steve ^a   Haydon, David J ^a  

^a Prolysis Ltd   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84872039152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1400-1_30     Document Type: Chapter

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