Patients with AIDS Samples and Duodenal Aspirates of Five Established in Culture from Sputum and Urine
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1998, 36(5):1201. J. Clin. Microbiol. Visvesvara D. M. Moss, S. Wallace, S. B. Slemenda, N. J. Pieniazek and G. S. C. del Aguila, G. P. Croppo, H. Moura, A. J. Da Silva, G. J. Leitch, Patients with AIDS Samples and Duodenal Aspirates of Five Established in Culture from Sputum and Urine intestinalis ) Septata ( Encephalitozoon Blot, and PCR Analysis of Eight Isolates of Ultrastructure, Immunofluorescence, Western
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Ultrastructure, immunofluorescence, western blot, and PCR analysis of eight isolates of Encephalitozoon (Septata) intestinalis established in culture from sputum and urine samples and duodenal aspirates of five patients with AIDS.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997