Islands of hope: Building local capacity to manage an outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the pacific

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-18

  Brostrom, Richard ^a   Fred, Dorina ^b   Heetderks, Andy ^d   Desai, Mitesh ^d   Song, Rinn ^d   Haddad, Maryam ^d   Wada, Roylinne ^c   Bamrah, Sapna ^d  

^a Division of Public Health   (United States)

^b Island State of Chuuk ^*  (United States)

^c US Department of the Interior   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MICRONESIA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 78650910288     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.177170     Document Type: Review

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