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. 1996;4(3):149–151. doi: 10.1155/S1064744996000324

Persistent Chlamydial Infections: An In Vivo Reality or a Cell Culture Artifact?

Gerald I Byrne 1
PMCID: PMC2364482  PMID: 18476086

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