Aerosol Sampling Outperforms Sputum to Predict Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission.

Clin Infect Dis

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CaliforniaUSA.

Published: October 2023

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