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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS
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Identification of Rare Bacterial Pathogens by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS

Published on: July 11, 2016

[Experience in the differential diagnosis of infectious diseases]

B L Ugriumov

    Klinicheskaia Meditsina
    |July 1, 1989
    PubMed

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