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Open-Source Miniature Fluorimeter to Monitor Real-Time Isothermal Nucleic Acid Amplification Reactions in Resource-Limited Settings
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[Diagnosis of infectious diseases by nucleic acid amplifications]
Toyozoh Takahashi1, Kei Hosaka
1Department of Bacteriology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine.
Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine
|January 19, 2006
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