Antimicrobial Producing Bacteria as Agents of Microbial Population Dynamics

The need for new antibiotics has been highlighted recently with the increasing pace of emergence of drug resistant pathogens (MRSA, XDR-TB, etc.). Modification of existing antibiotics with the additions of side chains or other chemical groups and genomics based drug targeting have been the preferre...

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Main Author: Tanner, Justin Rogers
Other Authors: Biology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30038
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12102010-104722/