The effects of poverty and ageing on the increase in tuberculosis

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 168-171

  Davies, P D O ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cohort; Deprivation; Poverty; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGING; CROWDING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INCOME; LONGEVITY; POVERTY; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032807401     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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