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Abnormal stress test results may suggest an underlying heart condition, such as coronary artery disease, or a blockage in the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Failing a stress test means you can ...

A nuclear stress test, also called myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) or a thallium stress test, uses a radioactive tracer to show how blood flows through your heart muscles during exercise and at ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

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