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. 2017 Jun;55(6):1964-1965.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00048-17. Epub 2017 Apr 5.

Liquillizer Does Not Interfere with Galactomannan Antigen Detection in Contrast to Dithiothreitol and N-Acetyl-l-Cysteine

Michaela Simon  1 , Ingeborg Held  2 , Lukas Teichmann  2 , Josef Köstler  2 , André Gessner  2 , Barbara Schmidt  2 , Jonathan Jantsch  2
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Liquillizer Does Not Interfere with Galactomannan Antigen Detection in Contrast to Dithiothreitol and N-Acetyl-l-Cysteine

Michaela Simon et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: N-acetyl-l-cysteine; dithiothreitol; galactomannan; mucolysis.

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