Phytochemicals against drug-resistant microbes

Dietary Phytochemicals and Microbes

Volumn 9789400739260, Issue , 2012, Pages 185-205

  Simões, Manuel ^a   Lemos, Madalena ^a   Simões, Lúcia C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial mode of action; Antimicrobial resistance; Biofilms; Phytochemicals; Structure activity relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931380574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-3926-0_6     Document Type: Chapter

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