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[Database on nucleotide sequences used as primers of microorganisms]

B N Mishan'kin1, N L Volokhonskaia, E A Moskvitina

  • 1Research Institute for Plaque Control, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Zhurnal Mikrobiologii, Epidemiologii I Immunobiologii
|November 24, 1998
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