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What happens after the inhibition of cell wall synthesis by penicillins ? Effects of antibiotics suggest that mucopeptidase plays an important part by destroying mucopeptide
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ROGERS, H. Killing of Staphylococci by Penicillins. Nature 213, 31–33 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213031a0
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