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When injected to animal model, at 120\u00a0minutes, 49.3% was localized in foci of infection with 3.35% in liver and excretion through kidney. Human studies were interpreted as true or false positive and true or false negative based on bone histopathology\/culture and clinical follow\u2010up. 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