Living with tuberculosis: The myths and the stigma from the Indian perspective [7]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1247-

  Mathew, Anita S ^a   Takalkar, Amol M ^a  

^a Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

AWARENESS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEPRESSION; FUNDING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFERTILITY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STIGMA; SUICIDE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35348844540     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522312     Document Type: Letter

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