TB or not TB?

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 241-244

  Taheri, Shahrad ^a   Crump, John ^a   Samarasinghe, Dunisha ^a   Weir, William ^a  

^a Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Unusual presentation

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030988364     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90060-2     Document Type: Article

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