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                <surname>Barnard</surname>
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                <surname>Liu</surname>
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                <surname>Patrick</surname>
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            <article-title>Proposal to reclassify Propionibacterium acnes type I as Propionibacterium acnes subsp. acnes subsp. nov. and Propionibacterium acnes type II as Propionibacterium acnes subsp. defendens subsp. nov.</article-title>
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            <source id="117">International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</source>
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