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Depolymerized Chitosan Enhances the Lysis of Staphylococcus aureus Cells by Lysostaphin

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This work was supported by the grant №16-14-00046 of Russian Science Foundation (preparation and characterization of chitosans) and funded by the subsidy of the Russian Government to support the Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University among World’s Leading Academic Centers (biological experiments).

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  1. Kazan Federal University, Kremlyovskaya St. 18, Kazan, Russia, 420008

    Sergey Kulikov, Evgeniya Subakaeva, Pavel Zelenikhin, Yuriy Tyurin & Olga Ilinskaya

  2. Kazan Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Bolshaya Krasnaya St. 67, Kazan, Russia, 420015

    Sergey Kulikov

  3. Kazan National Research Technological University, 68 Karl Marx street, Kazan, Russia, 420015

    Sergey Kulikov

  4. Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerova Street, Kazan, Russia, 420012

    Yuriy Tyurin

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Kulikov, S., Subakaeva, E., Zelenikhin, P. et al. Depolymerized Chitosan Enhances the Lysis of Staphylococcus aureus Cells by Lysostaphin. BioNanoSci. 8, 1–4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12668-017-0485-0

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