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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Rinn Song M.D., Dr.Med., M.P.H.

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Mass General Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Kristian R. Olson M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M.&H.

  3. Internal Medicine, Inpatient Clinician Educator Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Kristian R. Olson M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M.&H.

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Correspondence to Rinn Song M.D., Dr.Med., M.P.H. .

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  1. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Nupur Gupta

  2. MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Brett D. Nelson

  3. Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Jennifer Kasper

  4. Global Health Pediatrics, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Patricia L. Hibberd

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Song, R., Olson, K.R. (2014). Tuberculosis. In: Gupta, N., Nelson, B., Kasper, J., Hibberd, P. (eds) The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Handbook of Pediatric Global Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7918-5_19

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