The discovery of enfumafungin, a novel antifungal compound produced by an endophytic Hormonema species biological activity and taxonomy of the producing organisms.

@article{Pelaez2000TheDO,
  title={The discovery of enfumafungin, a novel antifungal compound produced by an endophytic Hormonema species biological activity and taxonomy of the producing organisms.},
  author={Fernando Peláez and Angeles Cabello and Gonzalo Platas and M T D{\'i}ez and Antonio Gonz{\'a}lez del Val and A Basilio and I Mart{\'a}n and Francisca Vicente and G Bills and Robert A. Giacobbe and Robert E. Schwartz and J C Onish and Maria S. Meinz and George K. Abruzzo and Amy M. Flattery and L. Kong and Myra Berman Kurtz},
  journal={Systematic and applied microbiology},
  year={2000},
  volume={23 3},
  pages={
          333-43
        }
}
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