Expanded Scope of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) Vaccine Applicability in Disease Prophylaxis, Diagnostics, and Immunotherapeutics
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Microbes and Diseases
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2641-5917
DOI: 10.1097/im9.0000000000000040