Beta‐lactam antibiotics: from antibiosis to resistance and bacteriology

Kong K‐F, Schneper L, Mathee K. Beta‐lactam antibiotics: from antibiosis to resistance and bacteriology. APMIS 2010; 118: 1–36.

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