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Jie Chen1, Jin-Jin Su1, Yu-Zhen Wei1

  • 1Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, PR China.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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