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Isabella W Martin1, Kim Dionne2, Sharon M Deml3

  • 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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PubMed

Keywords:
Drug susceptibility testing methodsMycobacterium tuberculosis complex

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