Virulence Factors of Oral Treponemes

Anaerobe - Tập 4 Số 1 - Trang 1-17 - 1998
J. Christopher Fenno1, B C McBride
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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