Po-Cheng Tang1, Dione L Sánchez-Hevia1, Sanne Westhoff1

  • 1Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

mBio
|February 23, 2024
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概括

抗生素组合至关重要,但其益处尚不清楚. 这项研究发现,相互作用可以是物种特异性的,具有添加和对抗作用的共同点,突出了在组合疗法中需要单独的特异性分析的必要性.

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