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. 2022 Aug 19;65(9):1890–1893. doi: 10.1007/s11427-022-2182-6

Silencing the silent pandemic: eliminating antimicrobial resistance by using bacteriophages

Mao Ye 1, Jian-Qiang Su 2, Xin-Li An 2, Yong-Guan Zhu 2,3,✉
PMCID: PMC9395768  PMID: 35997917

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42021005, 42177113) and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2018350). We are grateful to Prof. Mingming Sun and Ms. Shuyue Liu for their constructive suggestions and figure drawing.

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Compliance and ethics The author(s) declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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