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Johnson, B.T. (2005). Microtox® Acute Toxicity Test. In: Blaise, C., Férard, JF. (eds) Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3120-3_2
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