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Interference of M-paraprotein in automated urea assays

  • Jean-Baptiste Oudart , Vichita Ok , Caroline Faucon , Laure Zucchini , Andrada Chiron , François-Xavier Maquart and Laurent Ramont EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Dr. Laurent Ramont, Laboratoire Central de Biochimie, CHU de Reims, Rue Serge Kochman, 51092 Reims Cedex, France, Phone: +33 326783181, Fax: +33 326788539

The authors thank Mrs. S. Gobert and Prof. G.D. Sockalingum for kindly reading and improving the English language of the manuscript.

Conflict of interest statement

Authors’ conflict of interest disclosure: The authors stated that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this article.

Research funding: None declared.

Employment or leadership: None declared.

Honorarium: None declared.

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Received: 2012-8-31
Accepted: 2013-1-15
Published Online: 2013-02-12
Published in Print: 2013-07-01

©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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