[Intermittent treatment of "intractable chronic tuberculosis" by combined rifampicin-ethambutol: preliminary results of a controlled survey made in Algeria].

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Published in Rev Tuberc Pneumol (Paris) on June 01, 1970

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D Larbaoui, P Chaulet, J Grosset, K Abderrahim, N Oussedik, C Coucke, L Benabdallah

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