Predictive modelling of a novel anti-adhesion therapy to combat bacterial colonisation of burn wounds
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1(School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Birmingham, UK) 2(Institute of Microbiology and Infection, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Campus, Birmingham, UK) 3(Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA) 4(Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA)
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