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References should be given in the following form:
Ono, K., Yamamoto,
K., 1999. Contamination of meat with Campylobacter jejuni in Saitama, Japan. International Journal of Food Microbiology 47, 211-219.
Kramer, J.M., Gilbert, R.J., 1989. Bacillus cereus. In: Doyle, M.P. (Ed.), Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens. Marcel Dekker, New York,
pp. 22-70. Caddick, M.X., 1994. Nitrogen metabolite repression. In: S.D. Martinelli, S.D., Kinghorn, J.P. (Eds.), Aspergillus: 50
Years on Progress in Industrial Microbiology, vol. 29. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, 323-353.
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