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Agus Hidayat1,2, Bhisma Murti3, Soedarsono Soedarsono4

  • 1Doctoral Program in Public Health, Graduate School, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta, Indonesia.

BMC Pulmonary Medicine
|May 26, 2022
PubMed
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Keywords:
Area under the ROC curveRisk factorSignSymptomTuberculosis

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