Antibiotic discovery is a walk in the park

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 14477-14479

  Nothias, Louis Félix ^a   Knight, Rob ^b,c,d   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; ENVIRONMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WALKING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; WALKING;

EID: 85006401219     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1618221114     Document Type: Note

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