Paracandidimonas lactea sp. nov., a urea-utilizing bacterium isolated from landfill

Chu Zhang1, Qian Pu1, Jun-Jie Ying1

  • 1College of Life Sciences and Medicine, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, 928th Second Avenue, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China.

Archives of Microbiology
|September 19, 2022
PubMed

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