Relevance of nucleic acid amplification techniques for diagnosis of respiratory tract infections in the clinical laboratory
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.2.242