Poverty and tuberculosis: Is it truly a simple inverse linear correlation?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 943-944

  Marais, B J ^a   Hesseling, A C ^a   Cotton, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 63849299048     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00173608     Document Type: Letter

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