Advances in techniques of testing mycobacterial drug sensitivity, and the use of sensitivity tests in tuberculosis control programmes.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 01, 1969

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G Canetti, W Fox, A Khomenko, H T Mahler, N K Menon, D A Mitchison, N Rist, N A Smelev

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