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The Importance of a Specimen Adequacy Control to Reduce False-Negative Mpox Virus Real-Time PCR Test Results

33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases,

ECCMID 2023 Annual Meeting

Copenhagen, Denmark, April 15-18, 2023

Poster presentation: The Importance of a Specimen Adequacy Control to Reduce False-Negative Mpox Virus Real-Time PCR Test Results

Authors: Borillo GA, Kagan RM, Realegeno S, Marlowe EM

Specialties: Infectious disease

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