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Rare genera of actinomycetes as potential producers of new antibiotics.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - 1 Sept 2001
Lazzarini A, Cavaletti L, Toppo G, Marinelli F
Abstract excerpt
A literature survey covering more than twenty-three thousand bioactive microbial products including eight thousand antiinfectives demonstrated the increasing relevance of the so called 'rare' actinomycetes as a source of new antibiotics. Past and present efforts in the isolation of rare actinomycetes have enriched the Biosearch Italia Strain Collection with more than twenty thousand strains, showing that, when...
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