Source: Annual Congress 2009 - Clinical immunology of tuberculosis
Disease area: Paediatric lung diseases, Respiratory infections



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S. Fouzas, E. Skylogianni, D. Nikolaidis, K. Bolis, M. B. Anthracopoulos, S. Mantagos (Patras, Eleftheroupoli, Kavala, Greece). Association between BCG scar and tuberculin skin test conversion. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, 2578

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