Childhood tuberculosis: Progress requires an advocacy strategy now

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 294-297

  Sandgren, Andreas ^a   Cuevas, Luis E ^b   Dara, Masoud ^c   Gie, Robert P ^d   Grzemska, Malgorzata ^e   Hawkridge, Anthony ^f   Hesseling, Anneke C ^d   Kampmann, Beate ^g,h   Lienhardt, Christian ^e   Manissero, Davide ^a   Wingfield, Claire ⁱ   Graham, Stephen M ^j,k  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e Stop TB Partnership   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

ⁱ Treatment Action Group   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^k INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

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Author keywords

Control; Infectious disease; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Public health

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; ISONIAZID;

CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHILDHOOD TUBERCULOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SWEDEN; SYMPOSIUM; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POVERTY; RISK; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84864745953     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00187711     Document Type: Review

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