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L Hadjadj1, A A Bentorki2, C Michelle1

  • 1Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France.

New Microbes and New Infections
|December 23, 2015
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GenomeMannheimia massilioguelmaensishuman infectioninfectious diseasetaxonogenomics

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