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[Electron microscopic study of bacterial development in colonies. The morphology of bacterial colonies]

I B Pavlova, A V Kulikovskiĭ, I V Botvinko

    Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
    |September 1, 1990
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