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Design, Development, and Validation of a Culture-Independent Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Method for the Rapid Detection and Quantification of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex in Water with an Equivalence to ISO/TS 12869:2019

Huong Duong, Shannon Fullbrook, Kate Reddington, Elizabeth Minogue and Thomas Barry
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology July 2023, 77 (4) 296-310; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2021.012728

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Design, Development, and Validation of a Culture-Independent Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Method for the Rapid Detection and Quantification of the Burkholderia cepacia Complex in Water with an Equivalence to ISO/TS 12869:2019
Huong Duong, Shannon Fullbrook, Kate Reddington, Elizabeth Minogue, Thomas Barry
PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology Jul 2023, 77 (4) 296-310; DOI: 10.5731/pdajpst.2021.012728
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