Gut Microbes Join Host in Metabolizing, Perhaps Detoxifying Arsenic
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbe Magazine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1558-7452,1558-7460
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.9.356.1