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AT present, the isolation and identification of viruses from clinical specimens is a slow, expensive and tedious process1,2. Modifying a technique previously described3, we were able to isolate and identify in three rapid and relatively simple steps a prototype virus from a sample of faeces seeded with a known quantity of polio virus.
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HELLMAN, A., GIRON, D. Isolation and Identification of Poliovirus from a Clinical Specimen. Nature 209, 324–325 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209324a0
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