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Antibiotics and Carbohydrate-Containing Drugs Targeting Bacterial Cell Envelopes: An Overview
29 Jul 2022
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Certain bacteria constitute a threat to humans due to their ability to escape host defenses as they easily develop drug resistance. Bacteria are classified into gram-positive and gram-negative according to the composition of the cell membrane structure. Gram-negative bacteria have an additional outer membrane (OM) that is not present in their gram-positive counterpart; the latter instead hold a thicker...
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