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Ammonia does not interfere with the Diazyme adenosine deaminase test

  • Hervé Delacour EMAIL logo , Aurore Bousquet , Eléonore Fontan and Franck Ceppa

Corresponding author: Hervé Delacour, Bégin Military Teaching Hospital, Department of biology, 69 avenue de Paris, 94163 Saint Mandé cedex, France, Phone: +33 1 43 98 50 91, Fax: +33 1 43 98 54 61, E-mail:

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Received: 2013-02-13
Accepted: 2013-04-03
Published Online: 2013-05-08
Published in Print: 2013-10-01

©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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