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Marcela O Ramón Rocha1, Octavio García-González, Alma Pérez-Méndez

  • 1Carrera de Biología, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, UNAM, Estado de México, Mexico.

FEMS Microbiology Letters
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