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. 1954 Dec;33(12):1611–1622. doi: 10.1172/JCI103041

The Influence of Antibiotics on the Origin of Small Colonies (G Variants), of Micrococcus Pyogenes var. Aureus1

Robert I Wise a, Wesley W Spink a
PMCID: PMC1072592  PMID: 13211817

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