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Anti-Nuclear Antibody Screening Using HEp-2 Cells
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Use of Computer-Aided Immunofluorescence Microscopy (CAIFM) for Interpretation of Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Pattern
Jennifer Taher1,2, Megan Spencer3, Paul M Yip1,4
1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine
|October 5, 2021
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