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Original Article

Improvement of pneumococcal pneumonia diagnostics by the use of rt-PCR on plasma and respiratory samples

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Pages 731-737 | Received 10 Oct 2012, Accepted 30 Apr 2013, Published online: 05 Jul 2013

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