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Faiz Ahmad Khan, M.A. Hamid Salim, Philipp du Cros, Esther C. Casas, Atajan Khamraev, Welile Sikhondze, Andrea Benedetti, Mayara Bastos, Zhiyi Lan, Ernesto Jaramillo, Dennis Falzon, Dick Menzies, Effectiveness and safety of standardised shorter regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: individual patient data and aggregate data meta-analyses European Respiratory Journal. ,vol. 50, pp. 1700061- ,(2017) , 10.1183/13993003.00061-2017

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