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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1390-1391

  Wheat, L Joseph ^a   LeMonte, Ann ^a  

^a MIRAVISTA DIAGNOSTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35548996791     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00280-07     Document Type: Letter

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