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. 2018 Apr 25;56(5):e00056-18.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00056-18. Print 2018 May.

Reply to Drancourt, "Culturing Stools To Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis"

Elisabetta Walters  1 , Anne-Marie Demers  2 , Marieke M van der Zalm  2 , Andrew Whitelaw  3 , Megan Palmer  2 , Corné Bosch  2 , Heather R Draper  2 , Robert P Gie  2 , Anneke C Hesseling  2
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Reply to Drancourt, "Culturing Stools To Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis"

Elisabetta Walters et al. J Clin Microbiol. .
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