Clinical Utility of String Test As a Screening Method for Hypermucoviscosity-phenotype

Overview

Journal Acute Med Surg

Specialty Critical Care

Date 2018 Jun 23

PMID 29930857

Citations 13

Authors

Hideharu Hagiya

Naoto Watanabe

Miyako Maki

Tomoko Murase

Fumio Otsuka

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