Evaluation of media for selective enumeration of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium species

Food Australia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 113-118

  Lankaputhra, Warnakulasuriya E V ^b   Shah, Nagendra P ^a   Britz, Margaret L ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

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