The Criteria of Drug Resistance to Secondary Antituberculosis Drugs
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عنوان ژورنال: Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
سال: 1975
ISSN: 1738-3536,2005-6184
DOI: 10.4046/trd.1975.22.4.151