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Li Shen1, Li Zhu2, Qian Luo2

  • 1Medical College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225001, China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou 225009, China.

Chinese Journal of Natural Medicines
|January 2, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Aspergillus terreusChemical constituentEndophyteErgot alkaloid

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