Cooperative haemolysis between weakly-beta haemolytic human intestinal spirochaetes and Clostridium perfringens

Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie

Volumn 287, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 315-330

  Calderaro, Adriana ^a   Dettori, Giuseppe ^a   Grillo, Rita ^b   Cattani, Paola ^b   Viani, Isabella ^a   Fadda, Giovanni ^b   Chezzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 0032078361     PISSN: 09348840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0934-8840(98)80166-7     Document Type: Article

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