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. 1975 Oct;51(5):329–330. doi: 10.1136/sti.51.5.329

False positive FTA-ABS results in patients with genital herpes.

J T Wright, A W Cremer, G L Ridgway
PMCID: PMC1045172  PMID: 1104075

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