Confused and misused: English under attack in scientific literature

International Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 145-148

  Tychinin, Dmitry N ^a   Webb, Vera A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b Lookfar Solutions Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 0141923842     PISSN: 11396709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10123-003-0123-2     Document Type: Review

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