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Investigating Aortic Valve Calcification via Isolation and Culture of T Lymphocytes using Feeder Cells from Irradiated Buffy Coat
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Diagnosis at first glance: hairy black colonies in resected prosthetic aortic valve
B Kocazeybek1, B Sönmez, K Sarman
1Microbiology Laboratory, Cardiology Institute, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
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