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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Infective endocarditis: does a new 16S rDNA set of primers improve the microbiological diagnosis?

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Pages 896-901 | Received 28 May 2015, Accepted 19 Jul 2015, Published online: 24 Aug 2015

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