The importance of cooling of urine samples for doping analysis

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-136

  Kuenen, J Gijs ^a   Konings, Wil N ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti doping organization; Bacterial contamination; Doping analysis; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149086479     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-009-0601-0     Document Type: Article

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