Use of T cell-based diagnosis of tuberculosis infection to optimize interpretation of tuberculin skin testing for child tuberculosis contacts.

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  2009

• Venue

  Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/595847PMID 19123864PMCID PMC2854802
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