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Influence of batch or fed-batch growth on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation

N Cerca1, G B Pier, M Vilanova

  • 1Centro de Engenharia Biológica, Universidade do Minho, Minho, Portugal.

Letters in Applied Microbiology
|October 16, 2004
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