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EDITORIAL (Open Access)

Biofilms research in Australia

Staffan Kjelleberg and Yue Qu

Microbiology Australia 44(2) 67-68 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA23020
Published: 12 May 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of the ASM. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)


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