The Clinical Utility of Polymerase Chain Reaction for the Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis
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- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 41 (5) , 660-666
- https://doi.org/10.1086/432474
Abstract
Background. There is no exact consensus about the usefulness of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for the diagnoKeywords
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