Reduction in turnaround time for laboratory diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by routine use of a nucleic acid amplification test
- 31 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Vol. 52 (3), 247-254
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.02.014
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