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Letter to the Editor

Environmental exposure and parental collection does not affect detection or semi-quantitative load assessment of bacteria in nasal swab specimens from children

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Pages 468-471 | Received 05 Nov 2017, Accepted 25 Nov 2017, Published online: 13 Dec 2017

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