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Strategies for potentiation of ethionamide and folate antagonists against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Kerstin A Wolff Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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Liem Nguyen Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. [email protected]
Pages 971-981 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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