Comparison of different methods and times for reading the tuberculin skin test.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

• Publication date

  2013-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5588/ijtld.13.0147PMID 24025377
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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