Advances in the diagnosis of mycobacterium tuberculosis and detection of drug resistance

Advanced Techniques in Diagnostic Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 387-410

  Kilic, Abdullah ^a   Drake, Wonder ^b  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-32892-0_23     Document Type: Chapter

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