Disseminated Tuberculosis in Immunocompetent Patients: Case Reports
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Disseminated Tuberculosis in ImmunocompetentPatients: Case Reports
Copyright: © 2015 Pereira D, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. *Corresponding author: Daniel Pereira, Internal Medicine resident, Serviço de Medicina, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Largo Pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infectious Pulmonary Diseases ( ISSN 2470-3176 )
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2470-3176
DOI: 10.16966/2470-3176.104