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Ethambutol: The Turtle of the Fifty Year Race!

  • Reminiscences from Indian Pediatrics: A Tale of 50 Years
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  1. Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India

    Rakesh Lodha

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Delhi, India

    Nidhi Bedi

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Lodha, R., Bedi, N. Ethambutol: The Turtle of the Fifty Year Race!. Indian Pediatr 57, 359–360 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-020-1790-1

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