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Surface properties of Staphylococcus saprophyticus: hydrophobicity, haemagglutination and Staphylococcus

H G Meyer1, S Gatermann

  • 1Institute for Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany.

APMIS : Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica, Et Immunologica Scandinavica
|July 1, 1994
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