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Gu, JD. (2008). Microbial Transformation of Organic Chemicals in Natural Environments: Fate of Chemicals and Substantiation of Microbial Involvement through Enrichment Culturing Techniques. In: Huang, Q., Huang, P.M., Violante, A. (eds) Soil Mineral Microbe-Organic Interactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77686-4_7

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