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



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M. Uluhan, D. Saka, M. Ögretensoy (Urfa, Ankara, Turkey). Factors that affect sputum smear and culture conversion in patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis. Eur Respir J 2005; 26: Suppl. 49, 2724

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