Interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) in high-endemic settings: could they play a role in optimizing global TB diagnostics?
- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier BV in International Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 12 (6), e1-e6
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2008.03.026
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