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Using Caenorhabditis elegans for antimicrobial drug discovery

Athanasios Desalermos Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Disease, 55 Fruit street, Gray-Jackson 5, Room GRJ-504, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Maged Muhammed Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Disease, 55 Fruit street, Gray-Jackson 5, Room GRJ-504, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Justin Glavis-Bloom Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Disease, 55 Fruit street, Gray-Jackson 5, Room GRJ-504, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Eleftherios Mylonakis Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Division of Infectious Disease, 55 Fruit street, Gray-Jackson 5, Room GRJ-504, Boston, MA 02114, USA+1 617 726 3812; +1 617 726 7416; [email protected]
, MD PhD (Associate Professor of Medicine)
Pages 645-652 | Published online: 30 Mar 2011

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