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Identification of Micro-Organisms after Milliflex Rapid Detection—A Possibility To Identify Nonsterile Findings in the Milliflex Rapid Sterility Test

Jennifer C. Gray, Dieter Morandell, Günther Gapp, Nathalie Le Goff, Gunther Neuhaus and Alexandra Staerk
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology January 2011, 65 (1) 42-54;
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