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              <article-title>Validation List no. 22.  Validation of the publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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              <issue>4</issue>
              <fpage>573</fpage>
              <lpage>576</lpage>
              <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
              <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
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              <lpage>219</lpage>
              <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
              <abbrev>Int J Syst Bacteriol</abbrev>
              <issn>0020-7713</issn>
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