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A 14-year-old girl presenting with tuberculous intestinal perforation while in a temporary shelter after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Dhruba ShresthaSiddhi Memorial Hospital, Bhaktapur, Nepal
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Manoj Krishna ShresthaSiddhi Memorial Hospital, Bhaktapur, Nepal;Kathmandu Model Hospital, Kathmandu, NepalORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0003-1435-3766
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Ganendra Bhakta RayaSiddhi Memorial Hospital, Bhaktapur, NepalORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6392-3134
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Anuj BhattachanInternational Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea
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Kentaro HayashiInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Koya AriyoshiInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan;School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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Christopher M. ParrySchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan;London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Bhim Gopal DhoubhadelSchool of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 69-72 | Received 16 Apr 2016, Accepted 22 Sep 2016, Published online: 25 Jan 2017

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