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Mohammad Hossein Mohammadzadeh1, Marzieh Asadollahpour2, Hamid Reza Sharbatdar2

  • 1Department of Biology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.

Microbial ecology
|February 14, 2026
PubMed
概括

定数感应 (QS) 允许微生物沟通人口密度. 这项研究探讨了真菌和原生动物的QS,揭示了抗真菌和抗寄生虫治疗的潜在新策略.

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