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Zhenzhong Yu1, Reinhard Fischer2

  • 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - South Campus, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Nature Reviews. Microbiology
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