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Original Article

Direct Automatic Bacterial Analysis of Rat Stool Samples; the Effects of Diet and Medical Treatment Studied by Computerised Gas-liquid Chromatography of Bacterial Fatty Acids

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Pages 93-103 | Received 11 Oct 1991, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

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