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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chim Acta. 2019 Mar 5;1065:71–78. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2019.03.001

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Nasopharyngeal swab specimen and optimization of the lysis performance. (a) A Gram-stained smear of nasopharyngeal swabs showing epithelial cells and traces of mucus. (b) Optimization of the ratio between the sample and the lysis buffer (v/v) based on the normalized lysis performance of different mixtures.