Noncompliance to DOTS: How it can be decreased

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-30

  Mittal, Chhaya ^a,c   Gupta, S C ^b  

^a SUBHARTI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b S N MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c C/o Sh AS Mittal   (India)

Author keywords

DOTS; noncompliance; RNTCP; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957661376     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.80789     Document Type: Article

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