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A New Method for Qualitative Multi-scale Analysis of Bacterial Biofilms on Filamentous Fungal Colonies Using Confocal and Electron Microscopy
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A New Method for Qualitative Multi-scale Analysis of Bacterial Biofilms on Filamentous Fungal Colonies Using Confocal and Electron Microscopy

Published on: January 25, 2017

[The surfaces of colonies of Mycobacterium species studied in the scanning electron microscope]

T G Putina, I B Pavlova

    Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
    |May 1, 1989
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