Childhood tuberculosis: In Canada and around the world

Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-133

  Fanning, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; REVIEW; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038013865     PISSN: 12057088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pch/8.3.131     Document Type: Review

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