Extracellular virulence factors in Bacillus cereus endophthalmitis: methods and implication of involvement of hemolysin BL.

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Published in Infect Immun on February 01, 1995

Authors

D J Beecher1, J S Pulido, N P Barney, A C Wong

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Food Microbiology and Toxicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.

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