Streptomyces in nature and medicine : the antibiotic makers / David A. Hopwood.

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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Hopwood, D. A.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:	Streptomyces > Genetics.