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Please help me.
The incubation time until the bottle for these 25 collections turned positive tended to be long and more typical of false-positive results.
Does this mean that long incubation time is more typical of false-positive results than positive results?
If not, what does ‘more typical of …’ mean?
'more typical of' 
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