Mycolic acid patterns of four vaccine strains of Mycobacterium bovis BCG.

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Published in J Gen Microbiol on March 01, 1983

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D E Minnikin, S M Minnikin, G Dobson, M Goodfellow, F Portaels, L van den Breen, D Sesardic

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