Source: International Congress 2015 – WHO guidelines in TB and clinical practice
Disease area: Respiratory infections



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Varuna Jethani (Dehradun, India), Varuna Jethani, Girish Sindhwani, Aarti Raghuvanshi, Vinit Mehrotra, Rakhee Khanduri. Comparison of diagnostic utility of pleural fluid ADA and interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) in differentiating tubercular and non-tubercular exudative pleural effusion. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, 1534

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