Screening alternative antibiotics against oxytetracycline-susceptible and -resistant Paenibacillus larvae

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 32, Number 3, May-June 2001


Page(s)		215 - 222
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2001123

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