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- ↑ Succession list of Principals of Calicut Medical College. Archived 2011-05-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Ananthanarayan & Paniker's Textbook of Microbiology 10th Edition
- ↑ Textbook of Microbiology at Vedam Books.in
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