The global drug facility: A revolution in tuberculosis control

Reichman and Hershfield's Tuberculosis: A Comprehensive, International Approach, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 705-715

  Arnold, Virginia C ^a   Smith, Ian M ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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