Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Infection and Immunodeficiency
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Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2007 799 Jennifer Cuellar-Rodríguez,* Arturo Galindo-Fraga,* Víctor Guevara,* Carolina Pérez-Jiménez,* Luis Espinosa-Aguilar,* Ana Lilia Rolón,* Araceli Hernández-Cruz, * Esaú López-Jácome,* Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle,* Areli Martínez-Gamboa,* Alfredo Ponce-de-León,* and José Sifuentes-Osornio* *Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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