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Li-Li Zhao1, Ya-Ping Liang, Ming-Xiang Huang

  • 1National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention/State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control/National Reference Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Beijing 102206, China.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|October 5, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
BACTEC MGIT 960 systemDrug susceptibility testingLowenstein-Jensen proportion methodMulticenter researchMycobacterium tuberculosisThe second-line drugs

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