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Avoiding false positives with PCR
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kwok, S., & Higuchi, R.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1989-05
- Volume
- 339
- Issue
- 6221
- Pages
- 237-238
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2047480444
- Cited by
- 3,441
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 56.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
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