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The authors show the use of Electro-Immuno-Diffusion on cellulose acetate in the diagnosis of Farmer's lung. This technique with its simplicity, its rapiditity, its sensibility is an interesting routine method in the detecting of this disease.
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Gari, M., Smets, P., Pinon, J.M. et al. Use of immuno-electro-diffusion on cellulose acetate for the research of the precipitating antibodies in the screening of patients suspected of farmer's lung disease. Mycopathologia 78, 151–153 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00466069
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