Essential gene identification and drug target prioritization in Aspergillus fumigatus.

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Published in PLoS Pathog on March 01, 2007

Authors

Wenqi Hu1, Susan Sillaots, Sebastien Lemieux, John Davison, Sarah Kauffman, Anouk Breton, Annie Linteau, Chunlin Xin, Joel Bowman, Jeff Becker, Bo Jiang, Terry Roemer

Author Affiliations

1: Merck Frosst Center of Fungal Genetics, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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