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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 756152, 3 pages
Paediatric Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis with HIV Coinfection: A Case Report
1Department of Community Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, PMB 7001, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
2Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Abia State, Nigeria
3Department of Paediatrics, Federal Medical Centre, PMB 7001, Umuahia, Abia State, Nigeria
Received 26 October 2012; Revised 29 December 2012; Accepted 14 January 2013
Academic Editor: Luis García-Marcos
Copyright © 2013 Huldah I. Nwokeukwu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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