Small-molecule efflux pump inhibitors from natural products as a potential source of antimicrobial agents

Antimicrobial Drug Discovery: Emerging Strategies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 62-76

  Jachak, Sanjay M ^a   Roy, Somendu K ^a   Gupta, Shiv ^a   Ahirrao, Pallavi ^b   Gibbons, Simon ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NIPER   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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