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[Screening of α-L-Rhamnosidases and Peptidases among Actinobacterium and Bacilli]

L D Varbanets, O V Matseliuk, O V Gudzenko

    Mikrobiolohichnyi Zhurnal (Kiev, Ukraine : 1993)
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