In the time of strategies to end tuberculosis, prevention is better than treatment
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Prevention is better than treatment
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1806-3756
DOI: 10.36416/1806-3756/e20200017