Editorial: Earthquake in Haiti: Is the Latin American and Caribbean regions highest tuberculosis rate destined to become higher?

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 417-419

  Khan, Faiz A ^a   Smith, Benjamin M ^a   Schwartzman, Kevin ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

disasters; earthquakes; Haiti; national health programs; public health; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HISTORY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIEF WORK;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EARTHQUAKES; HAITI; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; RELIEF WORK; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77955048135     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.41     Document Type: Editorial

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