Breaking a law: Tuberculosis disobeys Styblo's rule

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-

  Dye, Christopher ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; KOREA; MORTALITY; PHILIPPINES; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 38049018029     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.049510     Document Type: Editorial

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