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The effect of exposure to non-ionising radiofrequency field on Escherichia coli, Klebsiella oxytoca and Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Dobroslava Bujňákováa Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Physiology, Košice, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9963-397XView further author information
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Samuel Buckob Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9300-8145View further author information
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Marek Češkovičc Faculty of Aeronautics, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8369-034XView further author information
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Vladimír Kmeťa Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Physiology, Košice, Slovak RepublicORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8081-8579View further author information
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Lívia Karahutováa Centre of Biosciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Physiology, Košice, Slovak RepublicCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 3813-3819 | Received 27 Sep 2021, Accepted 26 Apr 2022, Published online: 15 May 2022

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