Bacterial stress response

The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Physiology and Biochemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 589-603

  Ron, Eliora Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30141-4_79     Document Type: Chapter

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