Diagnosis of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis

Reichman and Hershfield's Tuberculosis: A Comprehensive, International Approach, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-181

  Lam, Phung K ^a,b   Catanzaro, Antonino ^a,b   Perry, Sharon ^c   Lobue, Philip A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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