Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 233-234 , February 2010

Extent of interlaboratory discrepancies for polyclonal Histoplasma antigen enzyme immunoassay cannot be determined without a large split-sample study

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doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.09.018

Diagnostic Microbiology & Infectious Disease
Volume 66, Issue 2 , Pages 233-234 , February 2010

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