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Peptides and Peptidomimetics for Antimicrobial Drug Design

Biljana Mojsoska1, Håvard Jenssen2

  • 1Department of Science, Systems and Models, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, Postboks 260, Roskilde 4000, Denmark.

Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 18, 2015
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antimicrobial peptidesmechanism of actionpeptidomimetics

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