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Niaina Rakotosamimanana1, Simon Grandjean Lapierre2,3, Vaomalala Raharimanga4

  • 1Mycobacteria Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar. niaina@pasteur.mg.

BMC Infectious Diseases
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Case detectionGeneXpertLoop-mediated isothermal amplificationMolecular diagnosticsTuberculosis

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