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Streptomyces in nature and medicine : the antibiotic makers /
This is an insider's account of 50 years of genetic studies of the soil-inhabiting microbes that produce most of the antibiotics used to treat infections, as well as anti-cancer, anti-parasitic and immunosuppressant drugs. The book begins by describing how these microbes - the actinomycetes - w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Actinomycetes and antibiotics
- Antibiotic discovery and resistance
- Microbial sex
- Towards gene cloning
- From chromosome map to DNA sequence
- Bacteria that develop
- The switch to antibiotic production
- Unnatural natural products
- Functional genomics
- Genomics against tuberculosis and leprosy.