Microbiology and biochemistry of yogurt and other fermented milk products

Dairy Microbiology and Biochemistry: Recent Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 167-213

  Özer, Barbaros ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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