Fifty years of drug discovery from fungi

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Amal H. Aly1, Abdessamad Debbab1, Peter Proksch1
1Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Institut für Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie, Düsseldorf, Germany

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