A millennial cover-up: Tuberculosis deaths in South Asia

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-4

  Currey, Bruce ^a   Quamruzzaman, Quazi ^a   Rahman, Mahmuder ^a  

^a Dhaka Community Hospital   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOSALICYLIC ACID PLUS ISONIAZID; ISONIAZID;

DEATH; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POVERTY; SOUTH ASIA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 78751679583     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2010.100300     Document Type: Editorial

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