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Mechanism of Streptomycin Action on Bacteria: A Unitary Hypothesis

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  1. CHARLES R. SPOTTS

    Present address: Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette (Seine-et-Oise), France

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SPOTTS, C., STANIER, R. Mechanism of Streptomycin Action on Bacteria: A Unitary Hypothesis. Nature 192, 633–637 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192633a0

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