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Natural Product Research
Formerly Natural Product Letters
Volume 28, 2014 - Issue 16
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Efflux-pump inhibitory activity of a gallotannin from Terminalia chebula fruit against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli

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Pages 1280-1283 | Received 18 Dec 2013, Accepted 14 Feb 2014, Published online: 13 Mar 2014

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