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Discordance between semi-quantitative nucleic acid detection of bacteria and quantitative bacteriology in sputum from
Naomi J Gadsby1, James J Dunn2, Coreen L Johnson2
1Medical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK.
The Journal of Infection
|March 2, 2023
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