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Viti, C., Giovannetti, L. (2007). Bioremediation of Soils Polluted with Hexavalent Chromium using Bacteria: A Challenge. In: Singh, S.N., Tripathi, R.D. (eds) Environmental Bioremediation Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34793-4_3

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