A new antibiotic isolated from dough bacteria could help strike back against the superbugs, Helen Gavaghan reports.
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Gavaghan, H. Bread bugs. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000817-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000817-4