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Phage-inspired antibiotics?

Nature Biotechnology volume 22, pages 167–168 (2004)Cite this article

Rather than using bacteriophage themselves as treatments, a new approach recruits them in the search for antibiotics with new antibacterial mechanisms.

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Figure 1: From phage genomics to antimicrobial drug discovery.

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