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Evaluation of Diagnos TB AG, a flow-through immunoassay for rapid detection of pulmonary tuberculosis

K Reither1, E Saathoff, J Jung

  • 1Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany. klaus.reither@unibas.ch

The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease : the Official Journal of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
|January 16, 2010
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