Indigenous bacterial bioremediation: Chromiumreducing capabilities of native strains from Halmahera

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Issue		BIO Web Conf. Volume 177, 2025 14^th International Symposium of Indonesian Society for Microbiology (ISISM 2024)


Article Number		06001
Number of page(s)		15
Section		Microbial Bioremediation and Environmental Microbiology
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/bioconf/202517706001
Published online		22 May 2025

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