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Detecting the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia Burgdorferi, in Ticks Using Nested PCR
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Molecular Testing for Diagnosis of Early Lyme Disease
1Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
|August 10, 2022
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