Measuring Ethanol in Blood and Breath for Legal Purposes: Variability between Laboratories and between Breath-Test Instruments
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Measuring ethanol in blood and breath for legal purposes: variability between laboratories and between breath-test instruments.
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/38.5.743