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Home Sputum Collection

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Home Sputum Collection

This video provides information on how to produce a sputum specimen.

Author:

Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Audiences:

General Public, Persons with TB

Topic:

Diagnosis, Diagnosis- Sputum Smear Examination

Country of Origin:

United States

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