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Acridine Orange Stain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stanley Mirrett*
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Denver, Colorado

Abstract

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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1982

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