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Cartridge-based sequencing for bedaquiline resistance detection from sputum
J D Limberis1, R J Nagel2, D Block2
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Centre, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
IJTLD Open
|September 20, 2024
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