Legionella in industrial cooling towers: monitoring and control strategies

Letters in Applied Microbiology - Tập 50 Số 1 - Trang 24-29 - 2010
Annalaura Carducci1, Marco Verani1, Roberta Battistini1
1Biology Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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