Disposable surgical gloves and pasteur (transfer) pipettes as potential sources of contamination in nitrite and nitrate assays

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2418-2420

  Makela, Sinikka ^a   Yazdanpanah, Mehrdad ^a   Adatia, Ian ^b   Ellis, Graham ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATEX; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE; POLYPROPYLENE; PROTEIN; STARCH;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTAMINATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PIPETTE; SURGICAL GLOVE;

EID: 0031438909     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/43.12.2418     Document Type: Article

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