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Sunghyun Yoon1, Sandeep Kondakala1, Minjae Kim2
1Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 3900 NCTR Road, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA.
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Microbial contamination is the inadvertent presence of microbes or their byproducts in materials or environments [...].
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