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Studying Interactions of Staphylococcus aureus with Neutrophils by Flow Cytometry and Time Lapse Microscopy
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Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on the bactericidal function of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|January 1, 1983
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