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Assessment of Non-emergence of Drug-resistant Strains of Pathogens treated with Polynoxylin

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THE difficulty of inducing drug-resistance of micro-organisms to polynoxylin has previously been reported1,2. Since July 1960, 360 bi-weekly sub-cultures of the organisms listed in Table 1 have been made.

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HALER, D. Assessment of Non-emergence of Drug-resistant Strains of Pathogens treated with Polynoxylin. Nature 205, 919–920 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205919b0

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