Improved isolation of chlamydia pneumoniae from synovial cell cultures by using polyethylene glycol

Medical Microbiology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 167-172

  Berlau, Jens ^a   Groh, Annemarie ^a   Straube, Eberhard ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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