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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

TBscore: Signs and symptoms from tuberculosis patients in a low-resource setting have predictive value and may be used to assess clinical course

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Pages 111-120 | Received 29 Jan 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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