Comparison of Self-Collected and Physician-Collected Vaginal Swabs for Microbiome Analysis

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Clinical Microbiology

• Publication date

  2010-03-03

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/JCM.01710-09PMID 20200290PMCID PMC2863907
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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