A Simple Method for the Detection of Lipolytic Activity of Micro-organisms and Some Observations on the Influence of the Contact Between Cells and Fatty Substrates

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Journal Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

Publisher Springer

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1957 Jan 1

PMID 13425509

Citations 159

Authors

G Sierra

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