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Original Article

Evaluation of antibacterial activity of Australian basidiomycetous macrofungi using a high-throughput 96-well plate assay

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Pages 492-500 | Received 12 Sep 2010, Accepted 21 Sep 2010, Published online: 31 Jan 2011

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