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Narrative Review

Vol. 4 No. 1 (1998)

Basic Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance: Molecular Properties of Multidrug Transporters

  • Hendrik W van Veen
  • Monique Putman
  • Wim van Klompenburg
  • Rene Heijne
  • Abelardo Margolles
  • Wil N Konings
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26443/mjm.v4i1.420
Submitted
October 29, 2020
Published
2020-12-01

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