Understanding latent tuberculosis: the key to improved diagnostic and novel treatment strategies.

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Published in Drug Discov Today on December 20, 2011

Authors

Hanif Esmail1, Clifton E Barry, Robert J Wilkinson

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, South Africa. h.esmail@imperial.ac.uk

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