On the Generation, Impact and Removal of Antibiotic Resistance in the Water Environment

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Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 59, 2023 2023 5^th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine (ICBB 2023)


Article Number		02008
Number of page(s)		7
Section		Precision Medicine and Drug Development and Preparation
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/20235902008
Published online		08 May 2023

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