Conventional versus miniaturized systems for the phenotypic characterization of Lactococcus garvieae strains

Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 136-144

  Ravelo, Carmen ^a,b   Magariños, Beatriz ^a   Romalde, Jesús L ^a   Toranzo, Alicia E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN LA SALLE DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Venezuela)

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