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Bead-captured Mycobacterium tuberculosis for next-generation sequencing diagnosis of uncultured tuberculosis

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Acknowledgments

J.S benefits from a Ph.D. grant from the IHU Méditerranée Infection and A.L. benefits from a Ph.D. grant from Aix-Marseille Université. We acknowledge Ayse Akkaya for her valuable technical assistance and Magdalen Lardière for reviewing English.

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This work was financially supported by the IHU Méditerranée Infection.

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    Jamal Saad, Ahmed Loukil & Michel Drancourt

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Saad, J., Loukil, A. & Drancourt, M. Bead-captured Mycobacterium tuberculosis for next-generation sequencing diagnosis of uncultured tuberculosis. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 39, 205–207 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03700-1

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