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. 1991 Dec 11;19(23):6653. doi: 10.1093/nar/19.23.6653

Heteroduplex formation as a means to exclude contamination in virus detection using PCR.

Y M Lo 1, E S Lo 1, P Patel 1, C H Tse 1, K A Fleming 1
PMCID: PMC329252  PMID: 1754411

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