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. 2022 Apr;33(5):525-526.
doi: 10.1177/09564624221076278. Epub 2022 Mar 23.

Post-COVID-19 biologically false-positive VDRL: A report

Ghazal Ahmed  1 , Anju George C  1 , Satyaki Ganguly  1
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Post-COVID-19 biologically false-positive VDRL: A report

Ghazal Ahmed et al. Int J STD AIDS. 2022 Apr.
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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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