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Are antibiotics naturally antibiotics?

21 Mar 2006

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Antibiotics have been used for more than 50 years and are the cornerstone of infectious disease treatment; in addition, these low-molecular-weight bioactive compounds have been applied to many other therapeutic purposes. However, there is almost no information on the evolutionary biology or ecology of naturally occurring low-molecular-weight compounds. The large number of different structural types and the...

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PMID: 16552582
DOI: 10.1007/s10295-006-0112-5

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