Reversing the tide of the UK tuberculosis epidemic

The Lancet

Volumn 382, Issue 9901, 2013, Pages 1311-1312

  Zenner, Dominik ^a,b   Zumla, Alimuddin ^b   Gill, Paramjit ^c   Cosford, Paul ^a   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885728537     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62113-3     Document Type: Note

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