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Characterization and Comparison of Bacterial Communities Selected in Conventional Activated Sludge and Membrane Bioreactor Pilot Plants: A Focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes Bacterial Phyla - Current Microbiology

  • ️Vannini, Claudia
  • ️Tue Feb 19 2013

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