Bacterial capsules: A route for polysaccharide engineering

Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 479-494

  Taylor, Clare M ^a   Roberts, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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