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Commonly used techniques for microorganism identification. The continuous black line represents the number of papers (X axis) over time (Y axis) that used PCR as the diagnostic tool, the discontinuous gray line refers to indirect methods (different immunoassays), and the dotted black line refers to cultures and direct detection by microscopy.
