Tuberculosis on the move

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9732, 2010, Pages 2127-2129

  Blumberg, Henry M ^a   Migliori, Giovanni B ^b   Ponomarenko, Oksana ^c   Heldal, Einar ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; POLICY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 77953691201     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60574-0     Document Type: Note

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