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M Gomathi Sekar1, Fathima Rehman, Vanaja Kumar

  • 1Department of Bacteriology (Retd), National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (ICMR), Chetput, Chennai - 600 031, Tamil Nadu.

The Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
|January 25, 2013
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