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[Isolation and study of antibiotic INA-1132 (chlorothricin), produced by actinomycete strain]

L P Terekhova, O A Galatenko, A S Trenin

    Antibiotiki I Khimioterapiia = Antibiotics and Chemoterapy [Sic]
    |February 21, 2009
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