Meeting report: The International Conference on Human Immunity to Tuberculosis.

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Published in Tuberculosis (Edinb) on June 02, 2012

Authors

Joel D Ernst1, Willem Hanekom, Tom Hawn, Beate Kampmann, Jyothi Rengarajan

Author Affiliations

1: New York University School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue, Smilow 901, New York, NY 10016, USA. joel.ernst@med.nyu.edu

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