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Original Paper

Evaluation of a Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification Method for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex on Samples from Different Sources

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Pages 329-331 | Received 28 Oct 2002, Accepted 27 Feb 2003, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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