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[Pyrazinamidase activity of bacteria from Enterobacteriaceae family as characteristic for taxonomy]

E P Sivolodskiĭ

    Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
    |February 15, 2007
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