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Screening for anti-rubella IgM ad libitum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

P. P. Mortimer
Affiliation:
Virus Reference Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT
R. S. Tedder
Affiliation:
Department of Virology, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Mortimer Street, London W1P 7PN
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There are few applications of virology to clinical medicine that have received more attention than the laboratory diagnosis of rubella. Many laboratories attempt it and most readers of this journal will be familiar with the techniques that have been used. It would therefore be superfluous to review the ‘state of the artm’ had there not recently been an innovation that is likely to alter laboratory practice in this field.

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Special Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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