Treatment of tuberculous meningitis: Overdue for concerted action.

Tuberculosis (Edinb)

Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, and Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, South Africa.

Published: September 2023

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