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Xia He1, Mark Jason So1, Francis L de Los Reyes2

  • 1Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7908, Raleigh, NC, 27695-7908, USA.

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
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