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        <authority>(Le Fleche et al. 1997) Adeolu and Gupta 2014</authority>
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        <authority>(Kawabata et al. 1994) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Margos et al. 2014) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Masuzawa et al. 2001) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Rudenko et al. 2010) Adeolu and Gupta 2018</authority>
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        <authority>(Margos et al. 2013) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Rudenko et al. 2011) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Baranton et al. 1992) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Fukunaga et al. 1997) Adeolu and Gupta 2014</authority>
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        <authority>(Fukunaga et al. 1997) Adeolu and Gupta 2014</authority>
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        <authority>(Johnson et al. 1984) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Canica et al. 1994) Adeolu and Gupta 2018</authority>
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        <authority>(Richter et al. 2006) Adeolu and Gupta 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(Wang et al. 1997) Adeolu and Gupta 2018</authority>
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        <authority>(Postic et al. 2016) Gupta 2020</authority>
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        <authority>(Margos et al. 2017) Gupta 2020</authority>
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        <authority>(Pritt et al. 2016) Gupta 2020</authority>
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        <authority>(Margos et al. 2015) Gupta 2020</authority>
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              <person-name>
                <surname>Schutzer</surname>
                <given-names>S.E.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Fraser-Liggett</surname>
                <given-names>C.M.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Qiu</surname>
                <given-names>W.-G.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Kraiczy</surname>
                <given-names>P.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Mongodin</surname>
                <given-names>E.F.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Dunn</surname>
                <given-names>J.J.</given-names>
              </person-name>
              <person-name>
                <surname>Luft</surname>
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