Involving private practitioners and chest physicians in the control of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 83, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 148-155

  Caminero, José A ^a,b   Billo, Nils E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

CENTRAL AMERICA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; MODEL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PULMONOLOGY; SIDE EFFECT; SOUTH AMERICA; THORAX; TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0038180904     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-9792(02)00055-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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