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Isolation and Preparation of Bacterial Cell Walls for Compositional Analysis by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography
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Isolation and Preparation of Bacterial Cell Walls for Compositional Analysis by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography

Published on: January 15, 2014

K Amako, A Umeda

    Journal of General Microbiology
    |August 1, 1979
    PubMed

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