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  • Cultural Heritage and Aerobiology Mandrioli, Caneva, and Sabbioni (English version), in Pan American Aerobiology Association Newsletter. Cultural Heritage and Aerobiology, Methods and Measurement Techniques for Biodeterioration Monitoring, Paolo Mandrioli, Guilia Caneva, and Cristina Sabbioni, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 ISBN 1-4020-1622-0
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