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This chapter discusses briefly the family Streptococcaceae and its three genera Streptococcus, Lactococcus, and Lactovum.
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Lory, S. (2014). The Family Streptococcaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30120-9_345
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