O3-s1.01 British Ocular Syphilis Study (boss): National Surveillance Study of Intraocular Inflammation Secondary to Infectious Syphilis
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O3-S1.02 Table 1 Sample Number of ARP gene repeats TPR gene Mse-1 RFLP analysis Tp548 gene sequence analysis Final enhanced strain type
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