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Gabriele Margos1,2,3, Bettina Wilske4, Andreas Sing1,2

  • 1Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleissheim, Germany.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
|July 11, 2013
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