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[Composition and immunochemical characteristics of exopolysaccharides from the rhizobacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa

I V Egorenkova, K V Tregubova, L Iu Matora

    Mikrobiologiia
    |November 14, 2008
    PubMed

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