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Nanomechanics of Drug-target Interactions and Antibacterial Resistance Detection
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Targeting Antibiotic Resistance: From Diagnostics to Novel Antibiotics
1Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia.
ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science
|June 23, 2020
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