Quality Assurance in the Mycobacteriology Laboratory: Quality Control, Quality Improvement, and Proficiency Testing
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinics In Laboratory Medicine
- Vol. 16 (3) , 657-675
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0272-2712(18)30260-9
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