Wild mushroom extracts potentiate the action of standard antibiotics against multiresistant bacteria

Maria José Alves; Isabel Cristina Fernandes Rodrigues Ferreira; Inês Lourenço; Ana Castro; Lázaro L. Capote Pereira; Anabela Martins; Manuela Pintado

doi:10.1111/jam.12348

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Mushroom extracts could decrease therapeutic doses of standard antibiotics and reduce micro-organism's resistance to those drugs.

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