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J Farkas1, E Andrássy, L Mészáros

  • 1Department of Refrigeration and Livestock-Products Technology, University of Horticulture and Food Industry, Budapest, Hungary.

Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica
|January 1, 1995
PubMed

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