A dipstick test for urinary tract infections.
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Screening Test for Urinary Tract Infections
3 Sophie Lahanas, George Stathopoulos, Raymond C. Chan, and Sebastiaan 4 J. van Hal 5 Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Royal Prince Alfred 6 Hospital, Sydney, Australia 7 8 9 # Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Royal 10 Prince Alfred Hospital, 11 Missenden Road, Camperdown, N.S.W. 2050, Australia. Phone: 61 2 9515 12 7186. Fax: 61 2 9515 5235....
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Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Medical Centre and Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) (Corresponding author) Department of Family Medicine, Division Public Health, Academic Medical Centre / University of Amsterdam Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Medical Centre Institute for Re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.12.3.191