Source: Annual Congress 2005 - Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic situations in adulthood and childhood in TB
Disease area: Respiratory infections



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E. Sulu, A. Selvi, M. Ertugrul, H. Turker, A. Kant (Istanbul, Turkey). Diagnostic predictive factors for sputum smear acid fast bacillus negative pulmonary tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2005; 26: Suppl. 49, 2714

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