<italic>Mycobacterium Tuberculosis</italic> in Spinal Tuberculosis
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Spinal Tuberculosis
Even in an era of remarkable medical advances, there is an issue of why tuberculosis remains in the list of disastrous diseases, afflicting humans and causing suffering. There has not been a plausible answer to this, and it has been suggested that clinicians and medical scientists could presently not win the war against the tubercle bacilli. With regards to this issue, based on the authors' own...
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عنوان ژورنال: Asian Spine Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1976-1902,1976-7846
DOI: 10.4184/asj.2017.11.1.138