Tuberculosis elimination: Dream or reality? The case of Cyprus

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 543-546

  Voniatis, Constantia ^a   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^b   Voniatis, Michael ^c   Georgiou, Andreas ^a   D'Ambrosio, Lia ^b   Centis, Rosella ^b   Raviglione, Mario C ^d  

^a NICOSIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cyprus)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c Cyprus Foundation of Immunology and Allergology   (Cyprus)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

ARTICLE; CYPRUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION RATE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIGRANT; MIXED INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; DRUG RESISTANCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MIGRATION; PANDEMIC; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CYPRUS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PREVALENCE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84903735862     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00044314     Document Type: Article

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