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Galina Novik1 \*, Victoria Savich1 and Olga Meerovskaya2

1 National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Microbiology, Minsk, Belarus

2 Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support for Scientific and Technical Sphere, Minsk, Belarus

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