QuantiFERON-TB Gold: state of the art for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection?

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  2006

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  Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

• Publication date

  2006-09-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1586/14737159.6.5.663PMID 17009902
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