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184 related items for PubMed ID: 14598968
1. Blinded rechecking of sputum smears for acid-fast bacilli to ensure the quality and usefulness of restaining smears to assess false-positive errors. Selvakumar N, Prabhakaran E, Rahman F, Chandu NA, Srinivasan S, Santha T, Chauhan LS, Narayanan PR. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis; 2003 Nov; 7(11):1077-82. PubMed ID: 14598968 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related]
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