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Original Article

Sensitivity of nPCR for four types of membrane protein DNA and of two pairs of primers for Tpp47 DNA of Treponema pallidum in whole blood of congenital syphilis newborns

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Pages 229-235 | Received 13 Nov 2016, Accepted 07 Sep 2017, Published online: 22 Sep 2017

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