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That doesn't really work unless your antibiotic is going to be a short chain peptide, which might find something but would be extremely unlikely.

Besides, fungi/bacteria have been waging this evolutionary war for a billion years, and we haven't tapped much of anything past beta-lactam (ala penicillin) from that arms race.



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