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. 2012 Sep;50(9):3146-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01505-12. Epub 2012 Jul 3.

Potential nonpneumococcal confounding of PCR-based determination of serotype in carriage

Maria da Gloria Carvalho, Godfrey M Bigogo, Muthoni Junghae, Fabiana C Pimenta, Iaci Moura, Alexis Roundtree, Zhongya Li, Laura Conklin, Daniel R Feikin, Robert F Breiman, Cynthia G Whitney, Bernard Beall

Potential nonpneumococcal confounding of PCR-based determination of serotype in carriage

Maria da Gloria Carvalho et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Sep.
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