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Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New O...

Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New O...

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Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New Options

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Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New Options

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2011-08, Vol.6 (8), p.e24030

Language

English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

To overcome the increasing resistance of pathogens to existing antibiotics the 10×'20 Initiative declared the urgent need for a global commitment to develop 10 new antimicrobial drugs by the year 2020. Naturally occurring animal antibiotics are an obvious place to start. The recently sequenced genomes of mammals that are divergent from human and mo...

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Ancient Antimicrobial Peptides Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Australian Mammals Provide New Options

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1308191462

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1308191462

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0024030

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