Transport time for blood culture bottles: underlying factors and its consequences
- 1 July 2013
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Vol. 76 (3), 286-290
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.03.031
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