Failure of "optimal" four-drug short-course tuberculosis chemotherapy in a compliant patient with human immunodeficiency virus.

Am Rev Respir Dis

Department of Medicine, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School, Newark.

Published: December 1987

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