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Chieko Sakamoto1, Nobuyasu Yamaguchi, Masumi Yamada

  • 1Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1-6, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.

Journal of Microbiological Methods
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