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Research Article

Field Detection of Francisella tularensis

Bjørn Peter Berdal, Reidar Mehl, Hakon Haaheim, Maria Løksa, Roland Grunow, Jim Burans, Cecilia Morgan, Hermann Meyer Institut für Mikrobiologie, Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr, Neuherbergstr. 11, DE-80937 München, Germany
Pages 287-291 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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