The increasing impact of lethal mutagenesis of viruses.

@article{Perales2019TheII,
  title={The increasing impact of lethal mutagenesis of viruses.},
  author={Celia Perales and Isabel Gallego and Ana Isabel de {\'A}vila and Mar{\'i}a Eugenia Soria and Josep Gregori and Josep Quer and Esteban Domingo},
  journal={Future medicinal chemistry},
  year={2019},
  volume={11 13},
  pages={
          1645-1657
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:201673871}
}
The conceptual basis of lethal mutagenesis, the evidence of virus extinction through mutagenic nucleotide analogs and prospects for application in antiviral designs are reviewed.
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