Inappropriate tuberculosis treatment regimens in Chinese tuberculosis hospitals.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on April 01, 2011

Authors

Guang Xue He1, Susan van den Hof, Marieke J van der Werf, Hui Guo, Yuan Lian Hu, Ji Huan Fan, Wei Min Zhang, Christopher P Tostado, Martien W Borgdorff

Author Affiliations

1: National Center for TB Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention Beijing 102206, PR China. heguangxue@chinatb.org

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