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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 512495, 8 pages
A Biosurfactant-Sophorolipid Acts in Synergy with Antibiotics to Enhance Their Efficiency
Biochemical Sciences Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Homi Bhabha Road, Pune Maharashtra 411008, India
Received 11 April 2013; Revised 22 July 2013; Accepted 2 August 2013
Academic Editor: Ramkrishna Sen
Copyright © 2013 Kasturi Joshi-Navare and Asmita Prabhune. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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