Tuberculosis in humans and animals: Are we a threat to each other?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 539-540

  Davies, P D O ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MILK; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33750631573     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.99.10.539     Document Type: Short Survey

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