Infect Chemother.  2016 Sep;48(3):225-226. 10.3947/ic.2016.48.3.225.

Multiresistant Tuberculosis and Its Paradoxical Manifestations

• Soto-Hernández JL

• KMID: 2466436
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3947/ic.2016.48.3.225

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Tuberculosis*

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