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Quantification of Airborne Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health Care Setting Using Real-Time qPCR Coupled to an Air-Sampling Filter Method

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Pages 371-376 | Received 09 Sep 2004, Accepted 24 Feb 2005, Published online: 23 Feb 2007

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