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[Isolation and properties of antibiotics from Streptomyces isolated from soils of Ukraine]

B P Matseliukh, O I Bambura, O P Kopeĭko

    Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal (Kiev, Ukraine : 1993)
    |March 30, 2011
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