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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, 400022, India

    Syed Ahmed Zaki & Preeti Shanbag

  2. 151, Tushar, 14th Road, Chembur, Mumbai, 400 071, India

    Y. K. Amdekar

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India

    Anice Joy & V. Venkateshwar

  4. B-15, Assistant Professor Quarters, New Civil Hospital Campus, Surat, India

    Jagdish Prasad Goyal, Vijay B. Shah & Sandeep R. Kukkar

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur, Kerala, India

    Kalyani Pillai

  6. Department of Dermatology, Amala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thrissur, Kerala, India

    Sandhya Acharya

  7. 439, Civil supplies Godown Lane, Kamalakshipuram, Vellore, TN, 632002, India

    T. Jacob John

  8. Department of Pediatrics, St Stephens Hospital, Delhi, 110054, India

    Pompa Dutta & Jacob M. Puliyel

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Zaki, S.A., Shanbag, P., Amdekar, Y.K. et al. Consensus statement on tuberculosis: Queries?. Indian Pediatr 47, 537–543 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-010-0084-4

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