Antifungal Agents: Chemotherapeutic Targets and Immunologic Strategies

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1996 Feb 1

PMID 8834867

Citations 112

Authors

N H Georgopapadakou

T J Walsh

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