Ancient disease, but not a thing of the past: Pott’s paraplegia in an HIV-positive health-care worker
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Centro de Investigación UNINAVARRA-CINA, Fundación Universitaria Navarra, Neiva, Colombia
Grupo de Investigación MICOBAC-UN, Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
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