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Growth-promoting Properties of Different Solid Nutrient Media Evaluated with Stressed and Unstressed Micro-organisms: Prestudy for the Validation of a Rapid Sterility Test

Jennifer Claire Gray, Alexandra Staerk, Manfred Berchtold, Werner Hecker, Gunther Neuhaus and Andreas Wirth
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology May 2010, 64 (3) 249-263;
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