Experience with a wipe guaiac-based faecal occult blood test as an alternative test in a bowel screening programme
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Screening
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0969-1413,1475-5793
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2010.010048