Methods and challenges for efficient antibiotic discovery from Streptomyces sp.

Open Access

Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 174, 2025 2025 7^th International Conference on Biotechnology and Biomedicine (ICBB 2025)


Article Number		02020
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Innovations in Therapeutics and Disease Mechanisms
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202517402020
Published online		12 May 2025

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