Bactericidal cationic peptides can also function as bacteriolysis-inducing agents mimicking beta-lactam antibiotics?; it is enigmatic why this concept is consistently disregarded
- 23 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Medical Hypotheses
- Vol. 62 (3), 367-374
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2003.11.017
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