Why has zoonotic tuberculosis not received much attention?

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1073-1074

  Thoen, Charles O ^a   Lobue, Philip A ^b   Isabel De, Kantor ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c WHO Tuberculosis Consultants Group   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 77956575217     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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