Tuberculosis: Role of Etiologic Diagnosis and Tuberculin Skin Test

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 26, 2004, Pages 240-242

  Pereira, Luísa ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; SPUTUM;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 1242314323     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.70117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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