Biotechnological and medical exploitations of toxin-antitoxin genes and their components

Prokaryotic Toxin-Antitoxins

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 341-360

  De La Cueva Méndez, Guillermo ^a   Pimentel, Belén ^a  

^a University of Malaga   (Spain)

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EID: 84930248633     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33253-1_19     Document Type: Chapter

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