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. 1969 Oct;18(4):686–687. doi: 10.1128/am.18.4.686-687.1969

Application of Paraffin Bait Technique to the Isolation of Nocardia asteroides from Clinical Specimens

S K Mishra 1, H S Randhawa 1
PMCID: PMC378062  PMID: 4905040

Abstract

The principal findings of a study for further evaluating paraffin baiting as a routine laboratory diagnostic procedure in the isolation of Nocardia asteroides, the etiological agent of nocardiosis, are reported.

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