Frequency of tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria in HIV infected patients from Bogota, Colombia

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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases

سال: 2001

ISSN: 1471-2334

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-1-21