Current status of antibiotic resistance in lactic acid bacteria

Antibiotic Resistance: Causes and Risk Factors, Mechanisms and Alternatives

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 379-424

  Dicks, Leon M T ^a   Todorov, Svetoslav D ^b   Franco, Bernadette D G M ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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