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Anti-Nuclear Antibody Screening Using HEp-2 Cells

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Allan Binder¹, Spencer Ellis

¹Rheumatology, Lister Hospital, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Stevenage SG1 4AB, UK. allan.binder@nhs.net

BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)

|August 23, 2013

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