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L Ahonen1, O H Tuovinen

  • 1Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, SF-00710 Helsinki, Finland, and Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, 484 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1292.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|February 1, 1990
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