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Rapid Testing for Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1): Diagnostic Test Utility and Specimen Source

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anucha Apisarnthanarak  and
Linda M. Mundy
Anucha Apisarnthanarak*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pramtumthani, Thailand
Linda M. Mundy
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, Saint Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Thammasat University Hospital, Pratumthani, Thailand12120, (anapisarn@yahoo.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , June 2010 , pp. 663 - 664
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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