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Advantages of the Silkworm As an Animal Model for Developing Novel Antimicrobial Agents

The demand for novel antibiotics to combat the global spread of multi drug-resistant pathogens continues to grow. Pathogenic bacteria and fungi that cause fatal human infections can also kill silkworms and the infected silkworms can be cured by the same antibiotics used to treat infections in the cl...

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Autores principales: Panthee, Suresh, Paudel, Atmika, Hamamoto, Hiroshi, Sekimizu, Kazuhisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28326075
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00373