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Antimicrobial activity and resistance to heavy metals and antibiotics of heterotrophic bacteria isolated from sediment and soil samples collected from two Antarctic islandsFootnote

Iva TomovaDepartment of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., Bl. 26, Sofia1113, Bulgaria
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Margarita Stoilova-DishevaDepartment of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., Bl. 26, Sofia1113, Bulgaria
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Irina LazarkevichDepartment of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., Bl. 26, Sofia1113, Bulgaria
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Evgenia Vasileva-TonkovaDepartment of General Microbiology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Georgi Bonchev Str., Bl. 26, Sofia1113, BulgariaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 348-357 | Received 30 Oct 2014, Accepted 21 Mar 2015, Published online: 22 May 2015

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