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High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

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¹Zentrum für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie, HELIOS Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Schwanebecker Chaussee 50, 13125, Berlin, Deutschland. josef.zacher@helios-kliniken.de.

|January 13, 2016

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