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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
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Corrigendum: Identification of novel thermosensors in gram-positive pathogens
Pilar Fernández1, Alejandra Raquel Díaz2, María Florencia Ré1
1Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET), Rosario, Argentina.
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
|September 19, 2022
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.592747.].
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