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Desouky Abd-El-Haleem1, Alice C Layton, Gary S Sayler

  • 1The Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1605, USA.

Journal of Microbiological Methods
|March 1, 2002
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