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M Ohkusu1, V Raclavsky, K Takeo

  • 1Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8673, Japan.

FEMS Microbiology Letters
|October 30, 2001
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