A cost analysis of the tuberculosis control programme in Elsies River, Cape Town

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 3 SUPPL. 2, 1998, Pages 380-383

  Dick, J ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

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