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“Events during the past decade have dramatically changed the nature and magnitude of the problem of tuberculosis. Much of what many physicians learned in training about this disease is no longer true. In many respects tuberculosis has become a new entity” [1].

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    Dr. Francis E. McGuinness

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McGuinness, F.E. (2000). Introduction. In: Clinical Imaging in Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59635-3_1

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