Study of epidemiological correlates of tuberculosis

Indian Journal of Community Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 304-309

  Jethani, Sumit ^a   Semwal, Jayanti ^b   Kakkar, Rakesh ^b   Rawat, Jagdish ^b  

^a HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^b HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Alcoho; Literacy; SE status; Smoking; Tubeculosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874285607     PISSN: 09717587     EISSN: 22489509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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