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        <authority>None 2015</authority>
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            <article-title>Validation List no. 71.  Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB.</article-title>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Jetten</surname>
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            <article-title>Isolation and characterization of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic Nitrobacter species, N. alkalicus sp. nov.</article-title>
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