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FROM the fermentation broth of a strain of Fusidium a hitherto unrecorded antibiotic, for which the name ‘fusidic acid’ is proposed, has been isolated.
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GODTFREDSEN, W., JAHNSEN, S., LORCK, H. et al. Fusidic Acid: a New Antibiotic. Nature 193, 987 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/193987a0
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