Assessment of worldwide tuberculosis control

Lancet

Volumn 350, Issue 9078, 1997, Pages 624-629

  Raviglione, Mario C ^a   Dye, Christopher ^a   Schmidt, Sonja ^a   Kochi, Arata ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM SMEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030796825     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)04146-9     Document Type: Article

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