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José Maria Rodrigues da Luz1 \*, Marliane de Cássia Soares da Silva<sup>2</sup> , Leonardo Ferreira dos Santos3 and Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya<sup>2</sup>

1 Programa de Pós-Graduação Multicêntrico na Área de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil

2 Department of Microbiology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil

3 Centro Universitário FIPMOC, Brazil

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