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              <surname>Troitskii</surname>
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          <article-title>Sulfurococcus mirabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic archaebacterium with the ability to oxidize sulfur</article-title>
          <year>1985</year>
          <volume>56</volume>
          <fpage>100</fpage>
          <lpage>107</lpage>
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              <surname>Golyshina</surname>
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              <surname>Valieho-Roman</surname>
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          <article-title>Sulfurococcus yellowstonii sp. nov., a new species of iron- and sulfur-oxidizing thermoacidophilic archaebacteria</article-title>
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          <source id="130">Mikrobiologiya (Russian)</source>
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        <source id="116">International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology</source>
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        <volume>56</volume>
        <fpage>100</fpage>
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