Virulence of recent notorious mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 379-381

  Orme, I M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032706187     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/tuld.1999.0221     Document Type: Article

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