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A breakthrough for the diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis and pleuritis in less than 2 hours

Muhammad Saeed, Mobeen Ahmad, Shagufta Iram, Saba Riaz, Mehwish Akhtar and Maleeha Aslam
Saudi Medical Journal July 2017, 38 (7) 699-705; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.17694

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vol. 38 no. 7 699-705
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.7.17694
PubMed 
28674714
Published By 
Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received November 20, 2016
  • Accepted March 22, 2017
  • Published online July 1, 2017.
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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Muhammad Saeed, BSc⇑,
  2. Mobeen Ahmad, FCPS,
  3. Shagufta Iram, M.Phil,
  4. Saba Riaz, PhD,
  5. Mehwish Akhtar, MBBS and
  6. Maleeha Aslam, M.Phil
  1. From the Department of Pathology (Saeed), Umar Hospital & Cardiac Centre, Cardiac Surgery Department (Ahmad), Punjab Institute of Cardiology, the Department of Pathology (Iram, Akhtar), Microbiology Section, Allama Iqbal Medical College & Jinnah Hospital, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (Riaz), Punjab University, and the Pathology Department (Aslam), Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Mr. Muhammad Saeed, Department of Pathology, Umar Hospital & Cardiac Centre, Lahore, Pakistan. E-mail: mian.scientist{at}yahoo.com ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5011-5875
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