Tuberculosis control in India: Time to get dangerously ambitious?

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 65-68

  Pai, Madhukar ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDIA; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PROFIT; SEROLOGY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 79958054923     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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