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Western Bats as a Reservoir of Novel Streptomyces Species with Antifungal Activity
23 Dec 2016
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ABSTRACT At least two-thirds of commercial antibiotics today are derived from Actinobacteria , more specifically from the genus Streptomyces . Antibiotic resistance and new emerging diseases pose great challenges in the field of microbiology. Cave systems, in which actinobacteria are ubiquitous and abundant, represent new opportunities for the discovery of novel bacterial species and the study of their...
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