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[Substrate phase state and time factor in variability of human fecal microbiota]

E A Bogdanova, Iu V Nesvizhskiĭ, E V Gerasimova

    Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
    |February 19, 2008
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