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Research Articles

Identification and functional annotation of hypothetical proteins of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain CFT073 towards designing antimicrobial drug targets

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Pages 14084-14095 | Received 27 Aug 2021, Accepted 26 Oct 2021, Published online: 09 Nov 2021

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