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M Kitajima1, T Oka, E Haramoto

  • 1Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kitajima@env.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Letters in Applied Microbiology
|January 11, 2011
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