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In Vitro Assay of Bacterial Adhesion onto Mammalian Epithelial Cells
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Published on: May 16, 2011

Specificity of attachment of certain enterobacteriaceae to mammalian cells

B Sugarman, S T Donta

    Journal of General Microbiology
    |December 1, 1979
    PubMed

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