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Interpretation and Use of the Western Blot Assay for Serodiagnosis of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infections*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors
Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors
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Association of State and Territorial Public Health Laboratory Directors, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
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Fourth Consensus Conference
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 8 , August 1989 , pp. 350 - 353
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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Originally appeared in MMWR 1989; 38:1-6.

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