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Original Articles

Identification of Bacillus and Yersinia species and hoax agents by protein profiling using microfluidic capillary electrophoresis with peak detection algorithms

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Pages 2-15 | Received 10 Mar 2019, Accepted 03 Jun 2019, Published online: 03 Jul 2019

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