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Muhammad Umer Asghar1,2, Arsalan Haseeb Zaidi3,4, Muhammad Tariq3,4

  • 1National Probiotic Lab, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-College (NIBGE-C), Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan. omer.asghar@yahoo.com.

Scientific reports
|August 2, 2025
PubMed
概括

这项研究引入了一种新型消毒剂,使用来自非耐药细菌的抗微生物 (APep) 来对抗抗微生物耐药性 (AMR). 基于APep的消毒剂有效地减少了医院表面的耐药微生物,提供了一种新的感染控制策略.

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