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Feasibility and accuracy evaluation of three human papillomavirus assays for FTA card-based sampling: a pilot study in cervical cancer screening.
BMC cancer - 4 Nov 2015
Wang Shao-Ming, Hu Shang-Ying, Chen Wen, Chen Feng, Zhao Fang-Hui, He Wei, Ma Xin-Ming, Zhang Yu-Qing, Wang Jian, Sivasubramaniam Priya, Qiao You-Lin
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BACKGROUND: Liquid-state specimen carriers are inadequate for sample transportation in large-scale screening projects in low-resource settings, which necessitates the exploration of novel non-hazardous solid-state alternatives. Studies investigating the feasibility and accuracy of a solid-state human papillomavirus (HPV) sampling medium in combination with different down-stream HPV DNA assays for cervical cancer...
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