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Erratum for Bansal et al., "Rectal and Naris Swabs: Practical and Informative Samples for Analyzing the Microbiota of
Saumya Bansal1, Jenny P Nguyen1, Aleksandra Leligdowicz2,3
1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Msphere
|July 23, 2019
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00219-18.].
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