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Carolina N Keim1, Ulysses Lins, Marcos Farina

  • 1Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

FEMS Microbiology Letters
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