[Ancient disease, but not a thing of the past: Pott's paraplegia in an HIV-positive health-care worker].
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Centro de Investigación UNINAVARRA-CINA, Fundación Universitaria Navarra, Neiva, ColombiaGrupo de Investigación MICOBAC-UN, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud
دوره 37 0 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017