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Antimicrobial Characterization of Advanced Materials for Bioengineering Applications
Published on: August 4, 2018
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Aptamers in diagnosis and therapeutics against the antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms: recent trends and
Ujanie Ghosh Moulick1, Sourav Bhattacharjee2
1School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Bioanalysis
|August 8, 2020
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