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Drug Discovery: A Biochemist’s Approach

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Chemotherapy of Fungal Diseases

Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology ((HEP,volume 96))

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A complete exhaustive knowledge of all the different chemo-receptors of a certain definite parasite is what I should like to characterise as the therapeutic physiology of the parasite cell and this is the sine quâ non of any successful chemotherapeutic treatment. (Paul Ehrlich 1913)

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