Childhood tuberculosis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 307-344

  Munoz, Flor M ^a   Starke, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN TAUB GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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