Tuberculosis control is crucial to achieve the MDGs

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9745, 2010, Pages 940-941

  Atun, Rifat ^a,b   Raviglione, Mario ^c   Marais, Ben ^d   Zumla, Alimuddin ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NOTE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77956896005     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61428-6     Document Type: Note

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