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The Ethics of National Tuberculosis Programmes in Low-income Countries Not Rolling out Xpert ® MTB/RIF

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Journal Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
Specialty Pulmonary Medicine
Date 2011 Nov 29
PMID 22118160
Citations 5
Authors
Jerome Amir Singh
Anant Bhan
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