Antimicrobial susceptibility testing in clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
Jiachen Li1, Siyuan Feng1, Yuhui Chen2
1Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China; Advanced Medical Technology Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases Control (Sun Yat-sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
The Lancet. Microbe
|November 10, 2022
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