False negative results from using common PCR reagents

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bacich, Dean J ^a   Sobek, Kathryn M ^a   Cummings, Jessica L ^a   Atwood, Allison A ^a   O'Keefe, Denise S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMARETROVIRUS; MURINAE;

EID: 80054920707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-457     Document Type: Article

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