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Ventura, S. (2018). Amyloid Formation in Bacteria. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_179-1
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