Validation of intra- and inter-laboratory reproducibility of the Xpert HPV assay according to the international guidelines for cervical cancer screening

Virology Journal - Tập 15 Số 1 - 2018
Ajmal Akbari1, Davy Vanden Broeck1, Ina Benoy1,2,3, Elizaveta Padalko3, Johannes Bogers3, Marc Arbyn4
1AMBIOR, Laboratory for Cell Biology & Histology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
2Laboratory of Molecular Pathology AML, Antwerp, Belgium
3National Reference Centre for HPV, Brussels, Belgium
4Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Belgian Cancer Centre, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium

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