Investigations on transferable antibiotic resistance through R-plasmids between obligate and facultative fish pathogenic bacteria

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 138-142

  Klein, Babette U ^a   Siesenop, Ute ^a   Bohm K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

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