Glycopeptide resistance

Antibiotic Discovery and Development

Volumn 9781461414001, Issue , 2012, Pages 515-542

  Périchon, Bruno ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1400-1_15     Document Type: Chapter

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