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'' which has been isolated from soil in Ibaraki in

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External links

Type strain of ''Streptomyces tsukubensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
tsukubensis Bacteria described in 2013 {{Streptomyces-stub

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