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. 1942 Jan;42(1):55–98. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400012638

The Eijkman test for faecal coli in the bacteriological examination of water supplies1

A survey and discussion of the experimental work from 1929 to the present day with a study of 104 water samples and of 602 cultures

C G Batty-Smith
PMCID: PMC2199795  PMID: 20475617

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Selected References

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