Disseminated tuberculosis: Still a diagnostic challenge

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 170, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 482-485

  Paull, Amalie E ^a,b   O'Reilly, Mary A ^a   Stanley, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0033577758     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb127849.x     Document Type: Article

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