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STUDIES ON THE PNEUMOCOCCUS : I. ACID DEATH-POINT OF THE PNEUMOCOCCUS

F T Lord1, R N Nye

  • 1Research Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
PubMed
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