Infectious Agents and Cancer
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O1 Development and application of a real time PCR assay for detection and quantification of merkel cell virus (MCV) in archived formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue samples of merkel cell carcinoma and other cancers R Modali, J Goedert, E Engels, LWAyers and K Bhatia Bioserve, Laurel, Maryland, USA National Cancer Institute, IIB, DCEG, Rockville, Maryland, USA The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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تاریخ انتشار 2009