Drugs That Changed Society: History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams

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Drugs That Changed Society : History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams. / Christensen, Søren Brøgger.

I: Molecules, Bind 26, Nr. 19, 6057, 2021.

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Christensen, SB 2021, 'Drugs That Changed Society: History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams', Molecules, bind 26, nr. 19, 6057. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26196057

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Christensen, S. B. (2021). Drugs That Changed Society: History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams. Molecules, 26(19), [6057]. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26196057

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Christensen SB. Drugs That Changed Society: History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams. Molecules. 2021;26(19). 6057. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules26196057

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Christensen, Søren Brøgger. / Drugs That Changed Society : History and Current Status of the Early Antibiotics: Salvarsan, Sulfonamides, and β-Lactams. I: Molecules. 2021 ; Bind 26, Nr. 19.

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